Nvidia troubles again.....

Nguyen Anh Phu phudhbk at softhome.net
Sat Feb 21 10:37:25 UTC 2004


Hope this will help you:
1. Stop X
2. Uninstall Nvidia driver: $nvidia-installer --uninstall
3. Remove (should backup first) /usr/X11R6/lib/tls
4. Rebuild Nvidia driver: $./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
5. Start X and try glxgears
6. If it doesn't work (it works for me), restore your tls backup, then try
to ask again.

----
Phu

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Radford
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 5:34 AM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Nvidia troubles again.....


Sorry to bug you all again, but I can't seem to work out what my problem is 
(apart from a low IQ).  ;)

I have updated my kernel to the latest version using up2date.

[root at mailgate root]# uname -srvpoi
Linux 2.4.22-1.2166.nptl #1 Fri Jan 30 13:52:48 EST 2004 athlon i386
GNU/Linux

And I used the latest .run file from the Nvidia website:

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run

Now, when I boot, I get into X fine, and I've been running for 24hrs with no

problem. However, I've just come to play my weekly game of Neverwinter with 
some friends and I get this:

[root at mailgate nwn]# ./nwn
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Failed to initialize graphics.

Erk, obviously that's not good. I noticed this in my XFree86.0.log:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX

Also, this I spotted in 'messages':

Feb 15 22:10:06 mailgate kernel: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA 
Kernel Module  1.0-5336  Wed Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004
Feb 15 22:10:06 mailgate insmod: Warning: loading 
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2166.nptl/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.o will taint the

kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA
Feb 15 22:10:06 mailgate insmod:   See
http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted 
for information about tainted modules
Feb 15 22:10:06 mailgate insmod: Module nvidia loaded, with warnings
Feb 15 22:10:08 mailgate kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff 
Hartmann
Feb 15 22:10:08 mailgate kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp

memory: 439M
Feb 15 22:10:08 mailgate kernel: agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT266 
chipset
Feb 15 22:10:08 mailgate kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000

And

Feb 15 22:10:38 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
sound-service-0-0
Feb 15 22:10:38 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-slot-1
Feb 15 22:10:38 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
sound-service-1-0
Feb 15 22:10:38 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-slot-1
Feb 15 22:10:38 mailgate modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module 
sound-service-1-0

(but I don't think the sound ones are related - what are they about?)

My XFree86 config is:


# XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of
the 
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
        FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "fbdevhw"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "freetype"
        Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#       Option  "Xleds"         "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#       Option  "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#       Option  "XkbModel"      "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#       Option  "XkbModel"      "microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#       Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
# or:
#       Option  "XkbLayout"     "de"
#       Option  "XkbVariant"    "nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#       Option  "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
#       Option  "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"
#
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "keyboard"
        Option      "XkbRules" "xfree86"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection



Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
# this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
# also use USB mice at the same time.
        Identifier  "DevInputMice"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Gateway VX1100"
        HorizSync    31.0 - 108.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1600x1200" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" 
"1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
        Mode         0666
EndSection

Lastly, I get this:

[root at mailgate root]# glxgears 
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

It seems to me that GLX isn't loading - but I don't know how to get it to 
load.

Any clues would be greatly received. Sorry for the long spammy post - but I 
thought I'd include everything that I thought was relevant.

If this have been covered before - and I'm sure it just a stupid mistake - 
just point me to the old thread. 

Thanks
-- 
Jim Radford
   "If at first you don't succeed - change the DC"


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