NVIDIA direct rendering problem solved!

[Mark Guzzo]

Nice, will try this when I get home :-)

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 11:45, Guo Yang wrote:
> Or at least it was solved here in my machine. Wish you all who have this
> problem good luck too!:)
> 
> I've been annoyed by this message for a long time after I installed the NVIDIA 
> driver:
> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> 
> But I never tried to solve it because it didn't bother my daily use until today
> I disovered the crash of my IDL (Interactive Data Language) was caused by this. So
> I decided to try to track it down. After searching google in vain for an hour, I 
> decided to look at my system carefully and see if there were any problems. Then I 
> found this strange links in /usr/lib/tls/i686/libGL.os.1 which pointed to 
> /usr/X11/lib/tls/i686/libGL.so.1.2. But this libGL.so.1.2 was from the old Mesa 
> package from XFree86. I thought this was the problem and deleted the i686 directory
> and ran ldconfig again. Then I tried glxinfo and glxgears. Bingo, the message was
> gone and the glxinfo shows the direct rendreing: Yes. And most important my IDL
> doesn't crash anymore!
> 
> I am using severn with the kernel upgraded to 2.6.0-0.test2.1.30. And I installed
> NVidia pakage before I upgraded the kernel. I am not sure if NVidia missed the
> link in the i686 directory and caused this problem.
> 
> Guo
> 
> 
> 
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