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Interesting, glxgears works fine now as does glxinfo, but doom3-demo now gives the following message. Stops earlier than it did before i re-installed the drivers... Now I'm really confused =).

Ran the same nvidia driver installer again, it defaulted to removing the existing driver and then re-installing it. It also copied the GL libraries again. Everything seems to work now, but I'm not sure why it didn't the first time. Thanks to everyone who helped me trouble-shoot this.

QChem: Well, as I said earlier, I changed the driver parameter in XF86Config to "nvidia" and made sure "glx" was listed as a module. When X starts it does display the NVidia splash screen which in my experience means it's using the proprietary NVidia driver. In my configuration /etc/X11/xorg.conf is just a symlink to /etc/X11/XF86Config.

1) no, same result when I run these programs as root 2) I have version number 1.0.6629. I haven't tried reinstalling them because they seem to work fine otherwise, when X starts up I get the NVidia splash screen and everything. 3) I re-made these symlinks and it didn't seem to have an effect. I checked out the file /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 and it is a symlink to /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1.0.6629, I suppose this is the 64-bit version of this library. I did install the AMD64 compatible NVidia drivers. I tried linking /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.6629 (the 32-bit version of the library, I suppose) and I get the message shown below. I don't have any ideas on how to procede.

I'm running Mandrake 10.1 x86-64 RC1. I have an NVidia Geforce4 Ti4200 (AGP), the NVidia kernel module is loaded and I'm using it as my driver in my XF86Config. When I run "glxgears" from a shell in X I get the following messages: When I run the Doom3 demo from a shell in X I get the following messages: In the case of glxgears a small window opens in the top corner of my screen and then immediately closes. In the case of doom3-demo, my screen resolution does get changed to 640x480, but it is just a "zoomed" mode of X, I never actually see any game generated graphics. The game is then stuck at the last line you see in the quote until I kill it. It seems like the GL libraries are available and being loaded, but not functioning correctly in my system. Any ideas, suggestions? I'd be happy to run some more tests, but I can't think of anything else that would be relevant. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Wow, I went into KDE Control Center and reset all the fonts to default. Everything looks normal now. Thanks.

This is Mandrake 10.1 RC1 x86-64. I'm using the default OpenOffice.org package. In any OpenOffice.org program the fonts for the menus are not readable. The actual menu bar and drop-down menus are fine along with some of the other text in the program, but all pop-up menus are in what appears to be some sort of symbols font (see pic). I tried adding the following lines to /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf, but they had no effect: UI_LANG="AUTO" UI_FONT="AUTO" FONT_SCALING="AUTO" Not sure where to go from here.

I agree, that was rude and ungreatful. Thanks for pointing that out, I took the little experience I had with this forum and one particular member out of context and made a general assumption that isn't true. Sorry I took the frustration I felt from my own problem and projected it onto someone who was was actually trying to help me solve it, that was really in poor taste. Formally apology to arctic: I'm sorry for saying that you should stop helping people on this forum. The very nature of that statement is the total opposite of the attitude one should have on a Linux help forum. Your suggested solutions didn't work for me and I generalized that and I was obviously wrong. I hope you accept my apology. I'm going to edit my post and remove the last lines. Again, sorry to everyone and thanks again for pointing out my mistake.

Fixed problem, the code in /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks should look like this: [root@tehabsolutrazar wigginjs]# cat /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks # tell function that re-writes resolv.conf to do nothing function make_resolv_conf() { : } This works, you can test it by running dhclient as root. If the file /etc/resolv.conf doesn't get over-written you know you've implemented it correctly.

Rebooted, still didnt' work =\.

I implemented this and it doesn't seem to work (ie. /etc/resolv.conf still gets overwritten about every 15-20mins). I shouldn't need to restart or anything after implementing this correct? [root@tehabsolutrazar wigginjs]# ls -al /etc/dh* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80 Jan 12 11:28 /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks* [root@tehabsolutrazar wigginjs]# cat /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks # tell function that re-writes resolv.conf to do nothing make_resolv_conf() {} [root@tehabsolutrazar wigginjs]#

Well, I gave the 'chattr +i' a shot. Afterward I did a 'lsattr' just to make sure the attributes had really changed, they had. About 15-20 minutes later I noticed my DNS requests were timing out again so I checked the file and it had been CHANGED! I then checked the attributes and the file was no longer +i. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it but I'm using reiserfs and I think the chattr command may only work with EXT2/3. Anyway, still broken, thanks for the help though. Any other ideas?

I'll take a look at the settings for the dhcp client (I believe it's dhclient), but I've tried taking away the write permission, it doesn't work. When I check back to find that the file has been overwritten I also find that the permissions have been changed, go figure... I'd be very open to hear some more ideas on this problem.

This is actually Mandrake 10.1-RC1 X86-64. I have a simple wired router connected to my cable modem which acts as a DHCP server for my two PCs (the one in question and a windows box). This router does not have DNS server or caching functionality. I am able to correctly lease an IP address from the router using DHCP, I configured eth0 using the mandrake wizard at installation. I was unable to resolve DNS names so I took a look in /etc/resolv.conf: 192.168.1.1 is the ip address of my router and as I stated earilier it is not a DNS server. When I run "ipconfig /all" on the windows box connected to the same router I get: I then changed the nameserver lines in /etc/resolv.conf to use the correct DNS servers (the ones shown in the windows configuration) and that worked fine. Approximately 15 minutes later I started having the same DNS resolution problems again and noticed my /etc/resolv.conf had been over-written and now contained the same information as shown earlier. I did some searches on google and found a few potential fixes that I have tried. I tried adding the line: net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0 to /etc/sysctl.conf and also adding the lines: alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off to /etc/modprobe.conf, then restarted. This did not seem to have any effect. From what I've read other people have had this problem and it seems that most people think it has something to do with IPV6 support (?). I don't know about that, but I'd really like to find a solution because it is EXTREMELY annoying. Any ideas would be appreciated.