Ixthusdan Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 Points: The longer "glx" line refers to a symlink, libglx.a. If it is not present you can create it yourself. Link it to the nvidia file located in the same directory. The gui will work regardless if glx is loading properly or not. glx becomes evident only under certain conditions: some screen savers and games, for example. I have found that frequently, starting with mandy9.2, I had to manually place some entries into the system to load the module correctly. In /etc/modules.conf, there should be a line "alias char-major-195* nvidia" In /etc/modprobe.preload, there should be a line "nvidia". I put these in myself. Do that, and restart the x server. (ctrl-alt-backspc) See if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeyKlitske Posted September 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 (edited) Points: The longer "glx" line refers to a symlink, libglx.a. If it is not present you can create it yourself. Link it to the nvidia file located in the same directory. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> :woops: how do i create the file and how do i link it to that file? Meanwhile i did insert the line nvidia as suggested and x starts nicely, i will add the other line as per your suggestion err how to read the file? Edited September 30, 2004 by SpikeyKlitske Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 I am doing this from memory, since my linux box is at home and I am on a windows box. As root in a console, navigate to the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/ and type: ln -s libglx.a libglx.so.1.0.6111 Got home. The above is correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeyKlitske Posted October 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 (edited) Thx for the input, however when entering the line you suggested i got the message file libglx.so.1.0.6111 already exist. I assume this command was to replace the reference libglx.a to libglx.so.1.0.6111 so i changed the XF86 Config file accordingly and the system started up nicely without any hickups. So in conclusion these are the steps to install the nvidia drivers correctly: 1. download latest driver package (6111 in this case) 2. download the c header file pm.h found elswere in this post 3. open a terminal window and enter su followed by the password 4. copy the c header file pm.h in /usr/linux/include/linux/ 5. enter telinit 3 to shutdown X server 6. login as root 7. enter sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run 8. enter vi /etc/X11/XF86Config and edit file as follows: a. replace: "vesa"or "nv"with "nvidia" b. replace "libglx.a" with "libglx.so.1.0.6111" c. add in module section : load "glx" (ed. line already there) d. remove: load "dri" (ed. line not found) e: remove: load "GLcore" (ed. line not found) Edited November 3, 2004 by SpikeyKlitske Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeyKlitske Posted October 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 Thank you all for helping me out solving this problem! Could not have done it without you, and with your help i am now a happy linux fan converting already many others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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