nvidia and glx

[Graham Campbell]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 09:03, 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.

I am not very knowledgeable about this, but I also use the Nvidia
drivers. It looks to me like the conflict is with GLcore which is still
being loaded in spite of your attempt to comment it out. Perhaps the
problem is that the '#' mark is not in column 1 of the "Load GLcore"
line.
-- 
Graham Campbell <gc1111 at optonline.net>