SoulSe Posted June 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 um.... The Matrix screensaver is GL, so it won't work great until you get those nvidia drivers installed and Direct Rendering working... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2k5 Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 (edited) QUOTE xscreensaver and it said that something was not running try and make sure you take notes.... if it just restarted X then there is some confict somewhere needs sorting out. What desktop are you running (KDE/Gnome etc)? Ok I'm running KDE and the message is this, " The xscreenSaver daemon doesn't seem to be running on display "0.0". Launch now? " Don't know what that daemon thing is. um.... The Matrix screensaver is GL, so it won't work great until you get those nvidia drivers installed and Direct Rendering working... Umm if you read the posts, that was on my friends computer, and the GLMatrix works fine on my computer I just don't really like it so thats why I'm not running it. But I'll go ahead and check if direct rendering is on right now............... Lol that sucks, this is what I get. $ glxinfo |grep direct direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect Hmm thats odd, because usually when it said no on my friends computer it would not run GLMatrix at all, it will display some error message. On mine to tell you the truth it runs a little slow but since it ran, I thought it might of have been installed. But when I typed in the code I don't think I got the " OpenGL " message before, on my friends computer it just the " No " line. -Luis Edited June 30, 2004 by Luis101 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest caleb Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Hi, I´m a linux and Mandrake newbie. I am also a Matrix nut. I found another option to get a matrix screensaver up and running. Instead of installing and using xscreensaver you can add a matrix screensaver to the default KDE screensaver List. here is what I did.... go to ; http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/matrixgl/ download; http://knoppix.ru/matrix_gl_bin-1.0.tar.gz Open a Konsole and go to the directory where you downloaded the file. type the following; [root@localhost username]# tar -zxvf matrix_gl_bin-1.0.tar.gz this will unpack two files; KMatrix_gl.desktop matrix_gl To install the matrix_gl screensaver type the following at the konsole; [root@localhost username]# ./matrix_gl -install Now got to; System/configuration/configure your desktop and open the KDE control centre. go to look and feel, then click on screensaver. matrix_gl should be listed at the bottom of the screen saver list. select it and click apply..... Now you should have a working Matrix screen saver :) What I am unsure of is what KMatrix_gl.desktop is for. If someone could shed some light on that it would be appreciated. Hope this post is usefull Caleb.. ======================================= You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.... ====================================== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 KMatrix_gl.desktop is most likely a desktop icon file. If you drop it in your Desktop directory it'll probably but a clickable icon on your desktop that would start the screensaver. that's just a guess...but that's what most .desktop files are for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest caleb Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 KMatrix_gl.desktop is most likely a desktop icon file. If you drop it in your Desktop directory it'll probably but a clickable icon on your desktop that would start the screensaver. that's just a guess...but that's what most .desktop files are for. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi tymark, thanks for the feedback, I tried what you said and I got the error message; The Desktop entry file /home/caleb/desktop/KMatrix_gl.desktop has no type = ....entry Will have a google and see what I can find Brett ======================================= You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.... ====================================== Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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