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 Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 4:45 pm Post subject: Nvidia complains about missing dri2 |
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According to https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-810097-start-0.html nvidia cards do not use dri or dri2.
(And also according to that thread everyone who does not know this should rtfm; however it seams the hole issue might be slightly more complicated than implied.  )
Explicitly disabling dri and dri2 as recommended there did make these to messages go away.
However I still see this:
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(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load module "dri2" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) NVIDIA(0): The X server will not be able to send the VDPAU driver name to
(II) NVIDIA(0): libvdpau.
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Looks like nvidia uses dri2 after all if it is available, isn't it?
So should I look into enabling dri2? Or it save to ignore this error? If so how can it be disabled?
I don't know whether the VDPAU warning is related but it comes right after the error.
Thanks
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Odysseus
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| Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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What Nvidia card are you using? Vdpau doesn't work on cards older than the Geforce 8 series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU
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| Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm using a GeForce 8800 GTS (rev a2), and should probably also note that I have x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-256.53 installed. |
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Da_G
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:18 am Post subject: |
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I have a GTX275, I see the same error msg (all hwaccel [vdpau, opengl] works fine)
same driverset, the box is down right now so I can't pull more infos off it just yet. |
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Gusar
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:54 am Post subject: |
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| Ignore those messages. DRI/DRI2 is not used by the nvidia blob, all DRI/DRI2 related messages are irrelevant if you're using it. |
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gerard27
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:23 am Post subject: |
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Hi again,
Put this in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf | Code: |
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/"
EndSection
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Here's a snippet of my /var/log/Xorg.0.log | Code: |
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri.so
(II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "dri2"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri2.so
(II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.1.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0
(II) Loading extension DRI2
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As you can see this will install dri and dri2.
Hope this helps.
Gerard.
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n00b
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| gerard82 wrote: |
Hope this helps.
Gerard. |
Yes this helped, thanks. (Couldn't test earlier as I had to wait for some ~50h task to complete  .) |
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Gusar
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Just so you know, this isn't a solution, all it does is load the module for nor other reason but to waste ram. The nvidia driver doesn't use it. |
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again
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| Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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So nvidia does not use it after all. Oh well  . |
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