I was just about finished setting up a Slackware 10 workstation when I decided to install the nvidia drivers. I only have a Viper 550 (riva TNT) 16mb card, but I used nvidia's drivers in the past on a 16mb ASUS riva TNT and it made a huge improvement. After installing the driver and renaming the rivafb.o file so the kernel could not load it and editing xorg.conf to load the nvidia driver I was able to start kde but the nvidia logo showed through the login boxes. I did manage to log in but almost everything was transparent and hardly anything was readable.

I tried changing xorg.conf around to load or not load the nvagp module. the only change at all was when using NvAgp=0 (no agpgart) I could see a thin white text box on top of the nvidia logo in the login boxes, but the desktop was still screwed. I even tried recompiling the kernel to leave out all the agpgart modules.

Finally I removed the driver files, removed the line from modules.conf, put the 'nv' driver back in xorg.conf and went back to my original kernel so all was back to origial. Only now when I try to use any GL screensaver I get "Module GLX Missing". I reinstalled x11-devel thinking that would restore the files but no luck.

Any ideas how to restore GLX to my system? There doesn't seem to be a "glx" package and according to the source readme you have to completely recompile X11 !

did you put glx in the modules section of xorg.conf as the readme says to?