On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:48:02 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi John :) > > I've got difficulties to completely understand your whole mail, perhaps > regarding to my broken English. Hi Ralf, sorry about the difficulty. I have no similar difficulty understanding your posts. I'd be happy to try to re-write any part which wasn't clear - if you think it would help. PM if you like. :) > However, the windows managers and desktop environments might need 3D > support and similar things, if you're using special desktop effects, so > it can be, that a desktop environments needs this, e.g. 3D acceleration, > as being provided, but it's provided by X (for some users perhaps by > Wayland instead of X). Yes, I think that could be it. I noticed a package in Synaptic called glx-alternative-nvidia, which is indicated as "Broken" if I try to mark it for installation. It "allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider". > For your Ubuntu Studio Xfce shouldn't need 3D acceleration or any other > special option. > > Xfce can be used with or without the proprietary NVIDIA driver. Understood, thank you, but I must have good 3D acceleration for screen-savers ;) and games of course, but really - some of the X screen savers are simply stunning [1]. Also Qt5 is out! [2] > What kernel do you run exactly? What's the output of > uname -a > ? I don't have access to my email client on the new install, but from memory a low-latency 3.8 > If it's a PREEMPT RT, than it's very likely that the proprietary driver > can't be used with the kernel. > > If it's a full PREEMPT kernel with threadirqs activated, the proprietary > driver should work. > > Any output for > $ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log > ? Yes. "Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your system's kernel log for additional error messages." And "Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)" and more. I'll see what happens with Xubuntu and work on from there if I have more success with a Generic kernel. Thanks. 1: Particularly 'Hyperspace' http://www.reallyslick.com/screensavers/ which is in the 'rss-glx' package. 2: http://qt-project.org/qt5 -- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
