Another Nvidia problem

[Michael Anthony Porter]

> none of the OpenGL screensavers work.  All fail with the error "Xlib: extension
> XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0" (to be clear, this error occurred with the Nvidia-installed
> drivers as well as with the rpms).  Nvidia explicitly states that dri should *not*
> be loaded in XF86config and I did not do so for RH 9.0.  Everything
> worked fine under RH 9.0.  What has changed?

That's a common problem.  Have you tried doing "rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-42"?  The NVIDIA libGL.so files conflict with the default XFree86 ones, and if that RPM is installed, the default files are found instead of the NVidia provided ones.

Hope it helps,

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Michael Porter
University of Kentucky