But I did the nvidia installation as instructed in <a href="http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc5.html#nvidia">http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc5.html#nvidia</a><br><br>I checked if kmod-nvidia is really installed or not through rpm and it says it is installed.
<br>------------------<br>$ rpm -q kmod-nvidia<br>kmod-nvidia-1.0.8762-2.2.6.17_1.2139_FC5<br>----------------------<br><br>Now I am confused.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lonni J Friedman
</b> <<a href="mailto:netllama@gmail.com">netllama@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 7/2/06, Deepak Shrestha <
<a href="mailto:d88pak@gmail.com">d88pak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Sorry I was not clear. What I mean was, after installing kmod-nvidia I can<br>> still use X. There is no difference between installing kmod-nvidia and not
<br>> installing. Either way I can't use the graphics acceralation.<br>><br>> glxinfo gives me<br>> ============================<br>> name of display: :0.0<br>><br>> visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
<br>> id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat<br>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> 0x21 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
<br>> 0x22 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None<br>><br>> ===============================<br>><br>> anyway what does it mean?<br><br>It means that you're not using the nvidia X driver. See the driver
<br>README for instructions.<br><br>><br>> Hope this information will help.<br>><br>><br>><br>> ><br>> " mean? what does the<br>> output from glxinfo look like?<br>><br>> On 7/1/06, Deepak Shrestha <
<a href="mailto:d88pak@gmail.com">d88pak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > Hi all,<br>> ><br>> > I have recently updated the kernel from 2.6.15 to 2.6.17 and installed the<br>> > kmod-nvidia from livna but I can't run my GL based screen savers. Display
<br>> is<br>> > wokring fine, only GL is not working. Do you have any experience like<br>> this?<br>> > Anybody knows the work around?<br><br>--<br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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