ezroller Posted March 20, 2003 Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 Well, I have tried everything on the board I could find, and I am still having issues. I'm using the 4191 nvidia driver on 9.1rc2 First, if I put Load "GLX" in my modules line, I can boot into X, but glxgears will not run. I get this error output: [pwolfe1@source pwolfe1]$ glxgears Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual [pwolfe1@source pwolfe1]$ here is what my XF86Config-4 file looks like: Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "GLX" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)" Driver "nv" Option "DPMS" EndSection now, If I follow the instructions on DOlson's site and the hoeto's around here, X will not start at boot. oh yeah, if I run modprobe NVdriver i get this error: [root@source pwolfe1]# modprobe NVdriver modprobe: Can't locate module NVdriver [root@source pwolfe1]# Any ideas why glxgears won't load, or Q3A for that matter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 20, 2003 Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 first of all, did you rebuild the nvidia drivers from source ? the stock nvidia driver won't work on RC2, you have to rebuild them for your running kernel. second, "GLX" should read "glx" Third, in RC2 there is no need to add the "glx" line anymore, it should already be there. The only line that needs changing is the "nv" to "nvidia" something like this: Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" EndSection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted March 20, 2003 Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 I use the 3123 drivers, so forgive me if I'm wrong here, but isn't the driver in the "Device" section supposed to be "nvidia", rather than "nv"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 20, 2003 Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 nv is the prob.....I got the exact same error on LFS after compiling XFree86-4.3.0 when I failed to chage the nv to nvidia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 20, 2003 Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 I failed to chage the nv to nvidia I would never have believed it of you :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted March 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 that issue of the building it or rpm'ing it is interesting. Maybe I should rpm -e these drivers and put some good ol source in instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted March 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 also, if I change it to nvidia, X doesn't start at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 20, 2003 Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 You didn't rebuild the nvidia drivers did you? thats why it won't work. Nvidia don't supply drivers for beta's or RCs. you have to d-load the source and rebuild them yourself. 9.1 final will be out any day now, so I should wait for that,. It has a newer kernel than the RC2 version. That would be the best time to rebuild the drivers from source, since it will be several weeks before Nvidia make them available. I will be rebuilding them for 9.1 final, and will make them available on the ftp site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted March 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 yeah I'll just wait until 9.1 comes out I really just wanted to run this and cookeize it. thats what ended up happening with 9.0 for me, but it makes sense to wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest itti Posted March 20, 2003 Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 su rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel*.src.rpm rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_GLX*.src.rpm it's no big deal :D if X still won't start up (or glx is missing) take a look at your X log file cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log |grep WW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 20, 2003 Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 bvc wrote: I failed to chage the nv to nvidia anon wrote: I would never have believed it of you :lol: You would have really laughed if you saw my reaction :shock: :roll: Buillds/installs LFS but can't edit the XF86Config-4 file correctly :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 20, 2003 Report Share Posted March 20, 2003 You would have really laughed if you saw my reaction :shock: :roll: Buillds/installs LFS but can't edit the XF86Config-4 file correctly :lol: LOL. I know you did, you have probably rebuilt nvidia and edited that file more often than me, sometimes we forget the simplest things.. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted March 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 Well, I'm still having the same problem. This time it was installed on a fresh 9.1 system. I am still having the same problems as above. These were the src rpms too. They built just fine, installed fine, but on a reboot, if have load "glx" X won't start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 I don't know that it makes a diff but I've never had GLX in Load "glx" large case....who did that? Try Load "glx" instead...or try the entire path....(not on linux) search the board or your sys for the correct path and extension but its something like Load "/usr/X11/lib/modules/extentions/libglx.so" I've also heard some users having to create the symlink libglx.so from libglx.so.xx (version). Search the board for that as well, or maybe someone will know. just a guess, if you've changed nv to nvidia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arise Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 Mine doesn't work either...i rebuilt 41.91 from src, installed ok...then it spat a warning that some existing glx files have to be renamed, but it gave 0 errors. Changed nv to nvidia in xfree86-4, cos Load "glx" is already there, but when i "startx" i get something like this (dont remember the exact wording): Device (EE): Cannot find display on 0,0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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