On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:32:41AM +0100, clifford wrote:

I'm running SuSE 7.2 using the latest GeForce 2 (Creative Titanium) with = the latest Nvidia drivers (downloaded from Nvidia's site).

Another thing. When i try to run /usr/bin/gears i get the message : GLUT: Fatal Error in gears: visual with necessary capabilities not = found.

If anybody has any ideas, i'd be most gratefull.

There are a couple of things that look suspicious to me. First, I have a geforce2go, and my driver section uses "nvidia" instead of "nv". I think the nv driver is a generic nvidia driver for older TNT type cards. Driver "nv" <-- change to nvidia? Second, if you can't run gears, something is not right with your OpenGL setup which could be related to the above. You should have a link in /usr/lib that looks likes this (although I think I am one generation behind on the latest nvidia release): libGL.so -> GL/libGL.so.1.0.2880.nv_glx* After I upgraded my nvidia drivers a few generations back, I no longer had to set the video driver on the command line to start quake3. I just run "quake3". With older versions of the driver, my start line looked like this: quake3 +set vid_ref glx +set gl_driver libGL.so +set sndchannels 1 This is a tangent, but I recently was able to play Quake3 Team Arena for the first time thanks to Linux. I bought it almost 2 years ago but it always crashed Windows when I tried to run it. Last year, I stopped using Windows completely (except on rare occassions when work forces me to) and the game just sat on my shelf. After loading SuSE 8.0 and getting Q3 running smoothly, I gave Team Arena a try in Linux and it worked great! So, Linux enabled me to play a Windows game that I otherwise would never have been able to play. Ironic. Hats off the id software people who always come through with Linux ports. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Linux soldat -- 8.0 SuSE panzer division Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net

One other thing that catches my attention. Somewhere in the lines of the startup is a comment about falling back to the Mesa drivers. I do believe this is default for Q3A. Howvever, on that note It is highly recommended that you "do not" have the Mesa and nVidia drivers installed at the same time. If you do have both drivers install then this may very well be the problem since these two drivers conflict and cause problems for each other. If the mesasoft drivers are installed remove them with "rpm -e meassoft" and see if gears and Q3A will run (you may have to restart and/or issue command "swithch2nvidia_glx") If you indeed had mesa drivers on and removed them and things still don't seem right reinstall the nVidia drivers (since on some systems installing nVidia drivers with mesasoft drivers present will hose the nvidia driver installation). If you need to reinstall the nVidia drivers try any or both of these methods. rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_GLX-blahblahblah.rpm and the same for the kernel drivers. If this doesn't seem to do the trick, then try rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_GLX-blahblah.rpm --nodeps --force rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_kernel-blahblah.rpm --force HTH, Curtis On Thursday 13 June 2002 03:32, clifford wrote:

Yes i know it's a tired and used problem and i've searched the net on = this one but the answers i receive just don't seem to work so here goes.

I'm running SuSE 7.2 using the latest GeForce 2 (Creative Titanium) with = the latest Nvidia drivers (downloaded from Nvidia's site).

When i run quake3, i get the following:

bash-2.05# quake3 +set r_gldriver /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 Q3 1.11 linux-i386 Nov 24 1999 ----- FS_Startup ----- Current search path: /root/.q3a/baseq3 ./baseq3/pak0.pk3 (3539 files) ./baseq3

---------------------- execing default.cfg execing q3config.cfg couldn't exec autoexec.cfg ----- Client Initialization ----- ----- Initializing Renderer ---- ------------------------------- ----- Client Initialization Complete ----- --- Common Initialization Complete --- Opening IP socket: localhost:27960 Hostname: kananga.domination Alias: kananga IP: 192.168.50.5 ----- R_Init ----- ...loading /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: Initializing OpenGL display ...setting mode 3: 640 480 Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.0 XF86DGA Mouse (Version 2.0) initialized XFree86-VidModeExtension Activated at 640x480 Couldn't get a visual ...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3) ...loading libMesaVoodooGL.so: QGL_Init: Can't load libMesaVoodooGL.so = from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: libglide2x.so: cannot load shared = object file: No such file or directory failed ...loading libGL.so: Initializing OpenGL display ...setting mode 3: 640 480 Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.0 XF86DGA Mouse (Version 2.0) initialized XFree86-VidModeExtension Activated at 640x480 Couldn't get a visual ...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3) ----- CL_Shutdown ----- RE_Shutdown( 1 ) ----------------------- ----- CL_Shutdown ----- ----------------------- Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL subsystem

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D = =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

I *DO* have a 640x480 mode on my machine and i can switch to it using = the ctrl+Alt+(+/=3D) key combo. However when setting it thru sax2, the = viewport is always too small for it. By this i mean that when using = 640x480, the whole screen moves when i move the mouse to any corner of = the screen.

Another thing. When i try to run /usr/bin/gears i get the message : GLUT: Fatal Error in gears: visual with necessary capabilities not = found.

If anybody has any ideas, i'd be most gratefull.

For completeness i'm pasting my *enitire* XF86Config file below.

#--------# # ?? SaX generated XFree86 config file ?? # Created on: 2002-06-09. # # Version: 4.3 # Contact: Marcus Schaefer , 2001 # # Automatically generated by SaX2 (4.3) # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! #

Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" EndSection

Section "ServerFlags" EndSection

Section "Module" Load "type1" Load "speedo" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Driver "Keyboard" Identifier "Keyboard[0]" Option "Protocol" "Standard" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" EndSection

Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "ButtonNumber" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "InputFashion" "Mouse" Option "Name" "Autodetection" Option "Protocol" "imps/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection

Section "Monitor" HorizSync 15-72 Identifier "Monitor[0]" ModelName "DDC-Probed" VendorName "DDC-Probed" VertRefresh 30-87 UseModes "Modes[0]" EndSection

Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" Modeline "1280x1024" 119.81 1280 1296 1552 1736 1024 1024 1035 1070 Modeline "1152x870" 100.22 1152 1168 1384 1568 870 870 881 909 Modeline "1152x870" 107.71 1152 1168 1384 1568 870 870 881 909 Modeline "1024x768" 78.53 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 779 802 Modeline "1024x768" 88.73 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 779 802 Modeline "800x600" 48.05 800 816 928 1072 600 600 611 626 Modeline "800x600" 54.29 800 816 928 1072 600 600 611 626 Modeline "640x480" 30.75 640 656 720 864 480 480 491 501 Modeline "640x480" 34.74 640 656 720 864 480 480 491 501 Modeline "1152x870" 100.22 1152 1168 1384 1568 870 870 881 909 Modeline "1152x870" 107.71 1152 1168 1384 1568 870 870 881 909 Modeline "1024x768" 78.53 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 779 802 Modeline "1024x768" 88.73 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 779 802 Modeline "800x600" 48.05 800 816 928 1072 600 600 611 626 Modeline "800x600" 54.29 800 816 928 1072 600 600 611 626 Modeline "640x480" 30.75 640 656 720 864 480 480 491 501 Modeline "640x480" 34.74 640 656 720 864 480 480 491 501 Modeline "1280x1024" 119.81 1280 1296 1552 1736 1024 1024 1035 1070 Modeline "1152x870" 100.22 1152 1168 1384 1568 870 870 881 909 Modeline "1152x870" 107.71 1152 1168 1384 1568 870 870 881 909 Modeline "1024x768" 78.53 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 779 802 Modeline "1024x768" 88.73 1024 1040 1216 1400 768 768 779 802 Modeline "800x600" 48.05 800 816 928 1072 600 600 611 626 Modeline "800x600" 54.29 800 816 928 1072 600 600 611 626 Modeline "640x480" 30.75 640 656 720 864 480 480 491 501 Modeline "640x480" 34.74 640 656 720 864 480 480 491 501 EndSection

Section "Screen" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1152x870" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"=20 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1152x870" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "1280x1024"=20 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x870" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" = "640x480"=20 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "1152x870" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"=20 EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1152x870" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"=20 EndSubSection Device "Device[0]" Identifier "Screen[0]" Monitor "Monitor[0]" EndSection

Section "Device" BoardName "GeForce 2 GTS (rev 1)" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "nv" Identifier "Device[0]" Screen 0 VendorName "Nvidia" EndSection

Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout[all]" InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "off" Screen "Screen[0]" EndSection

Section "DRI" Group "video" Mode 0660 EndSection