Nvidia problems

andrew fedora at tolboe.org
Sat Apr 8 14:48:01 UTC 2006


Stephen Mirowski wrote:
> andrew wrote:
>> I have been trying to get some nvidia drivers working with fedora 5 
>> and having a heck of a time.  I have installed gcc, xorg-sdk, 
>> kernel-devel, and ran updates on everything (including the kernel).  
>> When I try to run my game (tux racer) I get this error
>>
>> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>>
>> My xorg.conf is using nvidia for the device driver and I have Load 
>> "glx" and Load "dri" in my modules section (among other things).  
>> Here is the odd part and maybe this is the root of the problem but I 
>> had to symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so to 
>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so to just get X to start 
>> up.  But still no glx support.
>>
>> Thanks for your time
>> Andrew
>>
>
> New drivers hit the nVidia site Friday morning.  Have you tried those?
>
> Stephen
>
Yes

Andrew




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