ATI and GLX graphics

Daniel Buggie buggie at best.com
Wed Oct 4 21:47:47 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:59 -0400, Margaret Doll wrote:
> I had a system with a NVIDIA card, but the images on the screen were  
> fuzzy.  I had GLX  for the NVDIA card installed.
> 
> I replaced the graphics card with an ATI card and am now trying to  
> get the GLX graphics working again.
> 
> I have tried to delete all references and drivers for the NVDIA card  
> from the system.
> I have upgraded the system from FC 2 to FC 3  to separate the NVDIA  
> drivers from the kernel.
> I have "sh ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run"
> 
> When I reboot the system, glx does not work.
> 
> Xorg.0.log contains:
> (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not found)
> 
> I don't see any warning messages  in /var/log/messages concerning the  
> graphics.
> 
> How can I get glx working on this system?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 

You might want to look at using the livna repository for your Fedora
ATI/NVIDIA driver needs:

http://rpm.livna.org/

Daniel




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