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[Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Williams wrote:
> On Friday 11 May 2007 19:03:36 Sloan wrote:
>   
> > Bob Williams wrote:
> >     
> > > Having been unsuccessful with my ATI Radeon card, I treated myself to an
> > > nVidia 7600 graphics card. I've added the download.nvidia repository and
> > > installed the drivers, but running glxgears gives the following
> > >
> > > :~> glxgears
> > >
> > > Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> > > 1074 frames in 5.0 seconds = 214.689 FPS
> > > 1221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 244.026 FPS
> > > 1221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 244.039 FPS
> > > 1221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 244.031 FPS
> > > 1221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 244.034 FPS
> > >
> > > I'm sure it should do better than that, and I'm not sure what to do about
> > > that missing extension :(
> > >
> > > Any suggestions, please?
> > >       
> > Did you run nvidia-xconfig?
> >
> >     
> OK. Tried that, but glxgears still gives same output.
>
>   
To make sure the nvidia drivers are loaded, you might try a hail mary 
play: run "depmod -a" and then "modprode nvidia" and restart the X 
session with CTRL-ALT-BKSP

Joe

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