Another Nvidia problem

[Marc Schwartz]

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:25, Katherine Holcomb wrote:
> I just upgraded from RH 9 to Fedora Core 1 yesterday on a Dell Precision
> 340 with an Nvidia graphics card.  I have read the previous thread about
> Nvidia drivers.  I had already installed them from the Nvidia script
> using the CC_IGNORE_MISMATCH flag, but uninstalled them and installed
> the rpms at www2.educ.umu.se/~peter/nvidia.  The rpms seem to work as
> well as the Nvidia script so far, but I still have a problem -- 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?


You need to remove the Mesa GL RPM:

rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL

Note that this will get re-installed with XFree86 and other updates, so
this step will need to repeated whenever that RPM gets re-installed.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz