DRI missing!

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On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 13:34, nosp wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 19:01, Elton Woo wrote:
> > On October 9, 2003 05:33 am, Mike A. Harris <"Mike A. Harris" 
> > <mharris at redhat.com>> wrote:
> > > >Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> [snip]
> > ... pardon my ignorance, Mike, but I've noticed this same error
> > message when some screensavers are invoked. The instructions
> > for installing the nVidia drivers, mention *removing* the reference 
> > to DRI in  /etc/X11/SF86Config. Correct?
> > 
> > Would the reinsertion of that line, "re-enable" DRI? I haven't actually
> > deleted it, but simply placed a REM (#) in front of it.
> 
> Commenting it is sufficient, but what's probably happened is the Mesa
> (software OpenGL) libs that the nvidia installer removes have been
> reinstalled by some update of XFree* rpms.  Check /usr/X11R6/lib/tls and
> tls/i686 for libGL.* (note period).  Rename any that exist and the run
> glxgears to see if you still get the message:
> 
> cd /usr/X11R6/lib/tls
> rename libGL disabled_libGL libGL.*
> cd i686
> rename libGL disabled_libGL libGL.*
> glxgears
> 
> 
> You may have to do /usr/X11R6/lib as well but I haven't seen those
> libGL.* libs being resurrected.

nosp:

I did exactly what you described and my NVidia problems cleared up (xlib
DRI).  I was using 4496 drivers.

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