nvidia and glx

[Wolfgang]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 23:03, François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
> 
> I have some problem with a nvidia video card GeForce FX 5200 Ultra. I installed
> nvidia drivers from FC 1 distribution and glx seems not work.
> 
> Here is the log from /var/log/XFree.0.log:
> 
> (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
> (II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>         compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
>         ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
> (II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
> (II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
> (II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
>         compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
>         ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
> (II) Loading extension GLX
> 
> Here everything seems perfect. But at the end:
> 
> (II) Loading extension NV-GLX
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
> (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
> (**) Option "dpms"
> (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
> (II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Moreover, I get some disconnection, with this message in the log file:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> 
> Here is my XFree86Config:
> 
> Section "Module"
>         #Load  "GLcore"
>         Load  "dbe"
>         Load  "extmod"
>         Load  "fbdevhw"
>         Load  "glx"
>         Load  "record"
>         Load  "freetype"
>         Load  "type1"
>         Load  "int10"
>         Load  "speedo"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "nvidia"
>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>         BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra"
>         Option      "NvAGP" "1"
> EndSection
> 
> Thank you for any advice.
> --
> François Patte

Checkout the Nvidia forums, they should be able to help you out with
your problem.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14

wolf