I have an Nvidia FX 5200 video card with an Athlon 2500 CPU and an Asus A7V8X-X motherboard. I am running SuSE 9.1 Pro with the 2.6.5-7.108 kernel. cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version shows I am running the 1.0-5336 nvidia driver. The card is set for 1280 X 1024, 24 bit color and runs fine for all my applications. When I type glxgears I get the error message extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0" My XF86Config file does contain the line Load "glx" in the Module section The appropriate part of the XFree86.log shows the following: (II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 8X successfully initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024" (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled (II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX (WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "CalcAlgorithm" is not used (==) RandR enabled This shows that the GLX extension is not getting loaded. I notice that Nvidia has a new driver as of August 5, version 6111. Normally I have installed the drivers via YOU and online update. Trying this leaves the driver at 5336. My question is twofold: 1) Is there a parameter i should add to my XF86Config file that would get GLX to laod, or 2) should I install the 6111 driver via the alternate method (not using YOU). Is that likely to fix the problem of GLX extension not loading. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502
On Friday 24 September 2004 11:39 am, Mike Coan wrote:
I have an Nvidia FX 5200 video card with an Athlon 2500 CPU and an Asus A7V8X-X motherboard. I am running SuSE 9.1 Pro with the 2.6.5-7.108 kernel.
cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version shows I am running the 1.0-5336 nvidia driver. The card is set for 1280 X 1024, 24 bit color and runs fine for all my applications.
When I type glxgears I get the error message
extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0" [...] This shows that the GLX extension is not getting loaded.
I notice that Nvidia has a new driver as of August 5, version 6111. Normally I have installed the drivers via YOU and online update. Trying this leaves the driver at 5336. My question is twofold:
1) Is there a parameter i should add to my XF86Config file that would get GLX to laod, or
2) should I install the 6111 driver via the alternate method (not using YOU). Is that likely to fix the problem of GLX extension not loading.
Mike --
Mike, Did you try running the gears as root from a shell? Probably won't work, unless you sign in with "sux" and not "su"! Of course, you only need to run it as user anyway. Did you run 3ddiag or glxinfo to see if direct rendering, etc are activated? Did you actually go through sax2 to turn on 3d? Lee -- --- KMail v1.7 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Those Who Dance Are Considered Insane, by Those Who Cannot Hear the Music!
On Friday 24 September 2004 16:18, BandiPat wrote:
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I notice that Nvidia has a new driver as of August 5, version 6111. Normally I have installed the drivers via YOU and online update. Trying this leaves the driver at 5336. My question is twofold:
1) Is there a parameter i should add to my XF86Config file that would get GLX to laod, or
2) should I install the 6111 driver via the alternate method (not using YOU). Is that likely to fix the problem of GLX extension not loading.
Mike --
Mike, Did you try running the gears as root from a shell? Probably won't work, unless you sign in with "sux" and not "su"! Of course, you only need to run it as user anyway. Did you run 3ddiag or glxinfo to see if direct rendering, etc are activated? Did you actually go through sax2 to turn on 3d?
Thanks for answering. I had already tried the sux root and got the same error message. For what it is worth I fixed the problem by downloading the Nvidia 6111 driver from the Nvidia website and installing it as follows: init 3 rmmod nvidia cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig make prepare-all sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run -q --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux sax2 -m 0=nvidia and all works fine. So far so good. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502
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