You will need to recompile the Nvidia drivers for the Single Kernel, and when you switch back to the SMP Kernel do it again. It appears that you can only have one copy of the driver, which is used by the running kernel. (You need to boot into the single CPU kernel to recompile/configure the Nvidia drivers) Glxgears, is the program to use to test that 3D is working, but don't use it for benchmarking as it's not really good for that. A 3D game like Quake III or UT2003 will be better for that. What Processors and Mother board are you using?? I'm running Dual Athlons, and the Nvidia Drivers (Their latest) and all is working fine. Wolf -----Original Message----- From: Melissa Golter [mailto:mgolter@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2003 1:49 PM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx; xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: dual processor, RH9, XFree86, NVIDIA Sorry if this cross posts to any, or too many, people...I was not sure to which list this question is most applicable...indeed, it may be that the nvidia list is the way to go, but I have never received a reply to any question posed to that list; so I apologize if this seems to take advantage of your willingness to help and thank you in advance for any info. I have a dual processor machine running RH9.0 -- I can still successfully use startx (NVIDIA drivers) when booting into the smp version of RH9, but trying to boot into the single processor version, I get an XIO:fatal IO error 14 (connection reset by peer) on Xserver ":0.0" I was trying this mode for 2 reasons: 1. SGIs performer, I have read, sometimes will not recognize a second processor and right now, tho with the newer version of performer (3.0.2) the system doesn't crash, perfly still won't work -- so I thought I'd go with one processor. Please correct me if I am wrong about this assumption (that smp indicates dual processors are accessed, etc) 2. There is no *gears* lib as mentioned in the NVIDIA readme, only glxgears (which works); an ldd yeilds fewer libraries than should exist...so I was gonna update my drivers...I thought I'd go to the one processor first as glxgears does work and I don't know what diff gears/glxgears. What I would like to know is: when booting into the non-smp mode of RH9, do I need to reconfigure the XFree86Config file? or ;] what? XFree86.log and log.old files are attached, but are also available at ftp.evl.uic.edu/pub/mgolter/ Again, thanks for any info ###################################################################### Attention: This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.marshalsoftware.com ###################################################################### -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
