Hi

I am having trouble with my nvidia card. I'm running a gentoo 2.4.20 gaming kernel. The card is an Nvidia geforce2 MX400 64 MB PCI card. I have downloaded and installed the drivers from the nvidia web site. I can get 2D graphics to work, but no GL / 3D support.
From my XF86Config file:


Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.

Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension

# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection

# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
# Load "freetype"
# Load "xtt"

# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
Load "dri"

EndSection


Section "Device"
Identifier "NV PCI"
VendorName "nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
# update this with the PCI id of your card. Consult the output
# of the 'lspci' command. The BusID is usually optional when
# only using one graphics card.
BusID "PCI:1:06:0"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection


Here is some other relevent info that may be of some use:
#lspci
.
..
01:06.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

linbox root # lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
sd_mod 11436 0 (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod 59156 1 (autoclean) [sd_mod]
nvidia 1963616 0 (unused)
linbox root # glxinfo
glxinfo: relocation error: /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1: undefined symbol: __gxx_personality_v0
linbox root # glxgears
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display "localhost:0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
linbox root #




Thanks for your help

Load "dri" should be commented out. Thats what the nvidia readme says anyways.

You need to comment out the DRI line. This:

should be this:

That may help.

Later

No difference, I commented that out, then rebooted. ( do I need to reboot, or just init 3, init 5) still get the same in glxgears & glxinfo

May be something different about Debian. I have never used Debian before so I'm not sure what else to try.

You may get a mod to move you to Debian forum or just post there where all the Debian experts hang out. Link:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...php?forumid=26

Sort of out of ideas here.

Did you install the nvidia glx part as well? The driver comes in two parts the kernel part and the glx part. You need both. Also as you are using gentoo you might want to try this instead

galik, emerge is not available in debian!!

canadian_2k2, did u try reinstalling the driver ?

Because you need to reinstall the module every time you tinker with your kernel I find it best to use nvidia's installer rather than the package-manager du jour provided by your distro.

Go to:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_d..._1.0-5336.html

and download the driver. Read the README...at least the first bit about installing, then exit X. This is very important. The module will not install if you are running X. Type:
Your XF86Config looks fine as long as you have commented out the 'dri' line. Then do a 'startx' and behold the beauty of the nvidia splash screen. BTW the module is no longer two separate 'kernel' and 'glx' files. Both are installed from the single 'NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run' file.

Good luck.

have you tried : modprobe nvidia as root ?

theres my problem

i cant get the kernel interface to compile! says something about ?/module/header/ not being configed :S

i installed the kernel sources and then ran sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.run and gives me that error! help plz!

Ok, you're using gentoo right? You may need to :
If still no go, I don't know what to tell you. Perhaps try the Nvidia linux forums, where the only topic is getting these modules to work. There is a link to them from the page I linked above.

sorry forgot to mention im running mandrake 10

Ok, so then do
If it isn't installed, find an rpm, install it, and try installing the nvidia module again.