nvidia and openGL

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Thu Jun 2 00:12:15 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 08:01:05PM -0400, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 20:02 +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 June 2005 01:18, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> > > Do you see any error messages?
> > > Anything in /var/log/*Xorg* that looks bad?
> > 
> > Did a search and I found that it loaded the wrong libglx.
> > I moved my libglx.a and created a link to libglx.so from the nvidia package.
> 
> If you have to move things to make it work, then the packaging is 
> broken, and that should be reported to ATrpms. I assume you haven't
> tried to install anything with the nvidia binary installer... 

ATrpms sets up proper linking to the desired nvidia libs unless you
have installed multiple versions of the nvidia drivers (which the
ATrpms packages deliberately allow you to, there have been too many
instances, where some groups of nvidia users would perfer driver A due
to better 3d accel, while others prefered driver B due to better
overscan and vsync control, the endless battle of gamers vs. PVR
addicts ...)

For this case ATrpms' nvidia packages have a tool called
nvidia-graphics-switch which allows you to switch from one driver to
another (with a X restart step in between) called

	nvidia-graphics-switch

Call it w/o arguments to see which drivers are installed (and to get a
usage information) and then call it with the driver you want to
activate as its only argument. You need to do so as root.

BTW ATrpms tracks rawhide in its FC4 repo, so you should get nvidia
kmdls for recent rawhide kernels with a very small delay.

HTH
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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