cannot get glxgears working on FC7 with nvidia card

[Robin Laing]

H.S. wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I installed FC7 a few days after it was released. But at that I did not 
> really try to get 3D working on my nvidia card. Yesterday I sat down and 
> installed nvidia drivers from livna. I have these relevant packages 
> installed:
> $> yum  list installed | grep nvidia
> kmod-nvidia-legacy.i686            1.0.7185-2.2.6.21_1.32 installed
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-legacy.i386    1.0.7185-4.lvn7        installed
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-legacy-devel.i386 1.0.7185-4.lvn7     installed
> $> yum  list installed | grep mesa
> mesa-libGL.i386                    6.5.2-10.fc7           installed
> mesa-libGL-devel.i386              6.5.2-10.fc7           installed
> mesa-libGLU.i386                   6.5.2-10.fc7           installed
> mesa-libGLU-devel.i386             6.5.2-10.fc7           installed
> $> yum  list installed | grep glut
> freeglut.i386                      2.4.0-11.fc7           installed
> freeglut-devel.i386                2.4.0-11.fc7           installed
> 
> And some stanzas from my xorg.conf files are:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "nvidia"
> #       Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
> #       Option      "DisableGLXRootClipping" "True"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
>         Load    "i2c"
>         Load    "bitmap"
>         Load    "ddc"
>         #Load   "dri"
>         Load    "extmod"
>         Load    "freetype"
>         Load    "glx"
>         Load    "int10"
>         Load    "type1"
>         Load    "vbe"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Section "Extensions"
>         #Option     "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection
> Section "Extensions"
>         #Option     "Composite" "Enable"
> EndSection
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> When gdm start, nvidia logo is displayed so I know that nvidia driver is 
> working. But when I start glxgears, I get:
> $> glxgears
> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
> 
> Can someone tell me what am I missing?
> 
> My nvidia card is:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 
> MX/MX 400] (rev b2)
> 
> and the kernel I am using is 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7.
> 
> thanks,
> ->HS
> 
> 
> 

After fighting with crashes with Xorg, I tried the freshrpms nvidia 
drivers yesterday.  Not the latest and no crash since.  I didn't see any 
difference in the driver between older and newer cards but I wasn't 
looking that close.

It may be worth trying the freshrpms site.

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