[SOLVED] No 3D Acceleration on nvidia (nouveau)

Burbruee · 2011-04-18 21:30:03

I'm having some issues with the 3D acceleration here. I'm trying to get gnome-shell to start but it goes into fallback mode. It appears to be an issue with driver or xorg configuration.
I went through all of the Beginner's guide on the wiki, and from that I did the Gnome 3 guide. Well, actually first I tried to install the nvidia driver but it wasn't compatible (which I later read on arch mainsite under news) so I installed the nouveau driver + nouveau-dri, did the configuration needed and rebooted.
As I finally tried to do startx I got into fallback mode only of gnome3. It says no hardware 3D support is available.

.xinitrc: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/374112/
/var/log/Xorg.0.log: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/374113/

I don't have any xorg.conf at the moment as it said in the beginner's guide it wan't needed. I put the 20-nouveau.conf and all that where it should be.

(Aditionally after I updated the system from a clean arch install and installed xorg and rebooted arch gets stuck on udev on the init script for about 3-4 minutes before going on. Should I try this one?)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Speed_Up_udev

My graphics card is a GTX 460, if there's any more info I should provide please let me know. Thanks.

Last edited by Burbruee (2011-04-18 23:34:16)

wonder · 2011-04-18 21:34:39

[ 7131.020] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): Error creating GPU channel: -19
[ 7131.020] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): Error initialising acceleration. Falling back to NoAccel

GTX 460 is a nv0 card and looking in http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix you'll see that for nv0 you need external firmware

9 - Needs external firmware, which we can't provide yet. See firmware status.

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM#Firmware to see how to extract the firmware.

Why are you not using nvidia driver?

Last edited by wonder (2011-04-18 21:35:08)

Burbruee · 2011-04-18 21:52:55

wonder wrote:

Why are you not using nvidia driver?

Well that's the first thing I tried (pacman -S nvidia) but it had some conflict with xorg and could not be installed. I figured it had something to do with this so that's why I tried nouveau.

But I also tried to get the shell script installer directly from nvidia.com version 260.19.44. After installing it, startx failed (mentioned something about -ignoreABI)

wonder · 2011-04-18 22:12:15

who told you do install the whole xorg? That's the problem, you installed all video and input drivers. Just get rid of them and install nvidia.

nvidia != nvidia-173xx

again, who told you to install nvidia using that .run method. that screwed up your system even more

Last edited by wonder (2011-04-18 22:17:55)

Burbruee · 2011-04-18 23:36:46

wonder wrote:

who told you do install the whole xorg? That's the problem, you installed all video and input drivers. Just get rid of them and install nvidia.
nvidia != nvidia-173xx

again, who told you to install nvidia using that .run method. that screwed up your system even more

Yeah thanks. I must have really screwed things up. I wiped the drive and reinstalled arch + followed the beginner's guide and now everything is working (apart from the 5 minute waiting for udev uevents processing which is still happening)
I'll mark this as solved.

karol · 2011-04-19 05:32:50

Burbruee wrote:

now everything is working (apart from the 5 minute waiting for udev uevents processing which is still happening)

Five seconds is still OK, five minutes is not. You can start a new thread if you're unable to debug this yourself.

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#1 2011-04-18 21:30:03

[SOLVED] No 3D Acceleration on nvidia (nouveau)

#2 2011-04-18 21:34:39

Re: [SOLVED] No 3D Acceleration on nvidia (nouveau)

#3 2011-04-18 21:52:55

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#4 2011-04-18 22:12:15

Re: [SOLVED] No 3D Acceleration on nvidia (nouveau)

#5 2011-04-18 23:36:46

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#6 2011-04-19 05:32:50

Re: [SOLVED] No 3D Acceleration on nvidia (nouveau)

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