cannot get glxgears working on FC7 with nvidia card

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/11/07, H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I installed FC7 a few days after it was released. But at that I did not
> really try to get 3D working on my nvidia card. Yesterday I sat down and
> installed nvidia drivers from livna. I have these relevant packages
> installed:
> $> yum  list installed | grep nvidia
> kmod-nvidia-legacy.i686            1.0.7185-2.2.6.21_1.32 installed
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-legacy.i386    1.0.7185-4.lvn7        installed
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-legacy-devel.i386 1.0.7185-4.lvn7     installed
> $> yum  list installed | grep mesa
> mesa-libGL.i386                    6.5.2-10.fc7           installed
> mesa-libGL-devel.i386              6.5.2-10.fc7           installed
> mesa-libGLU.i386                   6.5.2-10.fc7           installed
> mesa-libGLU-devel.i386             6.5.2-10.fc7           installed
> $> yum  list installed | grep glut
> freeglut.i386                      2.4.0-11.fc7           installed
> freeglut-devel.i386                2.4.0-11.fc7           installed
>
> And some stanzas from my xorg.conf files are:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Section "Device"
>          Identifier  "Videocard0"
>          Driver      "nvidia"
> #       Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
> #       Option      "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>          Load    "i2c"
>          Load    "bitmap"
>          Load    "ddc"
>          #Load   "dri"
>          Load    "extmod"
>          Load    "freetype"
>          Load    "glx"
>          Load    "int10"
>          Load    "type1"
>          Load    "vbe"
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "Extensions"
>          #Option     "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection
> Section "Extensions"
>          #Option     "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> When gdm start, nvidia logo is displayed so I know that nvidia driver is
> working. But when I start glxgears, I get:
> $> glxgears
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
>
> Can someone tell me what am I missing?
>
> My nvidia card is:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2
> MX/MX 400] (rev b2)
>
> and the kernel I am using is 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7.

You need to disable the Composite extension if you want GLX support in
the 1.0-71xx legacy driver.