kmod-nvidia not working in kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/2/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry I was not clear. What I mean was, after installing kmod-nvidia I can
> still use X. There is no difference between installing kmod-nvidia and not
> installing. Either way I can't use the graphics acceralation.
>
> glxinfo gives me
> ============================
> name of display: :0.0
>
>    visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
>  id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0x21 24 tc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
> 0x22 24 dc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
>
> ===============================
>
> anyway what  does it mean?

It means that you're not using the nvidia X driver.  See the driver
README for instructions.

>
> Hope this information will help.
>
>
>
> >
> " mean?  what does the
> output from glxinfo look like?
>
> On 7/1/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have recently updated the kernel from 2.6.15 to 2.6.17 and installed the
> > kmod-nvidia from livna but I can't run my GL based screen savers. Display
> is
> > wokring fine, only GL  is not working. Do you have any experience like
> this?
> > Anybody knows the work around?

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