[TriLUG] GLX extensions?

Randy Barlow rpbarlow at eos.ncsu.edu
Fri Apr 15 11:01:33 EDT 2005


Well, I got it to work.  All I had to do it turns out was to use a newer 
version of the nVidia driver.  I run Gentoo, so I was using the driver 
that was available through Portage, but it turns out that this was an 
older driver than is currently available.  So it works now, yay!

Randy

Thomas Mayfield wrote:

>I know that with the "nvidia" driver, you need to make sure you
>comment (or remove) the lines from your
>XF86Config/XF86Config-4/xorg.conf file (pick whichever is relevant):
>    Load "dri"
>    Load "GLcore"
>
>I've had some problems with the nvidia driver, but have successfully
>compiled it and installed it about a year ago on Fedora Core 1, just
>about a week ago on Debian Sarge, and a few days ago on Ubuntu Hoary. 
>I've never tried leaving those lines active, but I'll try again
>tonight and re-enable them, and see if I get the same symptoms you do.
>
>If you used the nvidia installer from their web site, there should be
>a README with extra options you can set and diagnostic information at
>/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_<>/README
>
>--Thomas
>  
>




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