I am running Core 1 and I plan on sticking with Fedora (cross my fingers / I hope, because I am tired of re-install OS ... and yes, both windows and linux).
I have had very few problems with Nvidia drivers in any distro I have been running but this one ... I don't have a clue to what's wrong. The installation went OK (with CC=gcc32) and after the reboot, the logo did show up. When I try to play TUX, it works but that seem to be all that works?!?! TUX and a logo
Take a look at my output when running glxinfo and glxgears:
$ glxinfo
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name of display: :0.0
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.3
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_NV_float_buffer
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.4.0 NVIDIA 44.96
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_abgr,
GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess
visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
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0x21 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x22 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x23 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x27 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x28 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x29 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2a 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Ncon
0x2b 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Ncon
0x2c 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Ncon
0x2d 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Ncon
0x2e 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x2f 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x30 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x31 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x32 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x33 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x34 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x35 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Ncon
0x36 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Ncon
0x37 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Ncon
0x38 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Ncon
=================================================================================
$ glxgears
=================================================================================
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
65917 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13183.400 FPS
68946 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13789.200 FPS
65334 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13066.800 FPS
68051 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13610.200 FPS
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 662527 requests (662302 known processed) with 1 events remaining.
=======================================================================
There's an issue with Xlib. Do I have to install/uninstall/reinstall/update this package ???
If this file(s) is'nt to blame, where to go ???