new nvidia questions....

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Feb 12 08:19:34 UTC 2008


François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
> 
> I succeeded (at last!) installing atrpms nvidia driver together with
> dkms auto-installer.
> 
> nvidia driver is loaded, but I cannot run glxgears or glxinfo, answer is:
> 
> Error: glXCreateContext failed
> 
> And in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
> 
> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX
> module.  If
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     you continue to encounter problems, Please try
> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
> 
> What is missing?

A copy of your xorg.conf as well as the lines in the Xorg.0.log that shows 
what is happening when the glx module is loaded...as in:

(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
         compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
         Module class: X.Org Server Extension
         ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1
(II) NVIDIA GLX Module  169.09  Fri Jan 11 15:31:25 PST 2008




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