Nvidia problems

Stephen Mirowski spmirowski at shaw.ca
Sat Apr 8 05:45:03 UTC 2006


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




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