It seems like everyone is having one of these. I was able to get past the installation and start X, however everytime I run an application (Celestia, Chromium) requiring OpenGL it crashes before starting up. The readme says to double check if I have any conflicting libraries, and there doesn't seem to be any, but I need to make sure as I don't have much of a clue where to look. Is there a short, easy, way that I can check for conflicting libraries, such as a program or a script?

Also the readme says that 'xdpyinfo' should show the "GLX", "NV-GLX" and "NVIDIA-GLX" extensions present. "GLX" and "NV-GLX" appear, but "NVIDIA-GLX" doesn't. What could I do about that? My xorg log seems to show no errors, I can post it here if anyone wants.

What distro are you using?

Make sure you have the Load "glx" in the module section of your xorg.conf file.

Also many people forget to add --open-gl-headers to the NVidia driver installer. run the installer with -A | less to see a long list of options you can pass.

Using Mandrake Linux 10.1 Community Download Edition. Also, "Load "glx"" seems to be in my xorg.conf file:

ection "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
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So its back to the comp again after another week of work, and faced again with some more old work to do...

I reinstalled the nvidia driver with the option --opengl-headers, and the installation was smooth but it didn't seem to help the problem much. Running any program (that requires openGL), causes a signal 11 crash, or just doesn't run at all. If you think you can help and need me to post any logs, I will.