Broken GLX: how to fix it?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/29/06, Philippe A. <futhark77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to enable compiz effects on my gnome desktop. It seems to
> work for lots of people out of the box but it is not my case. When I enable
> desktop effects, I'm getting the following messages:
>
> compiz: /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.so.1: no version information available
> (required by /usr/lib/tls/libGL.so.1)
> compiz: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.so.1: undefined
> symbol: _nv000037gl
>
> I see the same messages when running glxgears or glxinfo. This is what
> worries me.
>
> Strangely, I can see in Xorg.0.log that GLX is found and loaded:
>
> (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> (II) Loading
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so
> (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
>         compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.9626
>         Module class: X.Org Server Extension
>         ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1
>
> I have installed nvidia-x11-drv from freshrpms (1.0-9626).

There's something broken in your NVIDIA driver installation.  Report
the bug to freshrpms, or install the official NVIDIA driver package.


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