Nvidia, xgl and games on hardy

[Simon Dawe]

Try running glxgears as:
glxgears -display :0.0

same thing for glxinfo:
glxinfo -display :0.0

I don't completely understand why that works for me, maybe someone
else might know, but I have direct rendering enabled on the 0.0
display, but not on 1.0, which is what everything defaults to.  It
solves my rendering speed problem, but I don't know about graphical
errors.

If you want to run your games on a different display, set the DISPLAY
environment variable to the display that works best ie:
DISPLAY=:0.0

Your mileage may vary.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Mathieu Charron <elwillow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> I haven't found any useful solution to my problem (or I'm just very bad at
> "googleling")
>
> as the title suggest, I have installed the latest driver with EnvyNG on
> Hardy 8.04 Beta (I just installed it).
>
> elwillow at synapse:~$ lspci | grep VGA
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV35 [GeForce FX 5900]
> (rev a1)
>
> I struggled a little to installed it and finally, it worked. but then I
> couldn't play any games.
>
> I had Feisty installed prior to the upgrade and my 2 games were working
> perfectly:
> EVE-Online have it's own client (actually a custom cedega)
>  UT 2K4 is native (no cedega or wine)
>
> so, if I run the EVE test, (yeah the put that), the Open GL Direct redering
> test fail but not the 3D acceleration.
> if I run UT 2K4, graphic are all fucked up and weird. for example, I can see
> through the Nvidia logo at the beginning.
>  For Eve, it load up, black screen and crash.
>
> the nvidia-settings application tells me that my OpenGL is disable, so is
> glxinfo.
>
> elwillow at synapse:~$ glxinfo | grep direct
> direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting
> LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
>
> no good, I know.
>
> but then:
>
> elwillow at synapse:~$ sudo glxinfo | grep direct
> [sudo] password for elwillow:
> direct rendering: Yes
>
> I have direct rendering with GLX with the Root user.
> I tried EVE, didn't let me run it as root. UT2K4, workswith graphic
> glitches, less than before.
>
> also, the fps of glxgears are better under root.
> elwillow at synapse:~$ glxgears
> 24351 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4869.785 FPS
> 24152 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4830.241 FPS
> elwillow at synapse:~$ sudo glxgears
> 34722 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6944.264 FPS
>  35170 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7033.949 FPS
>
>
> now what? root have direct rendering and I don't.
> any solution?
>
>
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