Fedora 7
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run driver
kernel-devel installed
Geforce 6200

I cannot get the NVIDIA driver to create a working xorg.conf file. I keep getting

(EE) glx failed to load
(EE) nvidia failed to load

load "glx" is in my xorg.conf file. It seems to be an issue with the kernel-source not being installed but I was thinking that was kernel-devel. I have tried specifying the source path, /usr/src/kernel/uname -r but that fails as well. I have searched for the nvidia driver to no avail.

The nv driver does not support accelerated graphics. When I try to run glxgears I get GLX not loaded on display :0.0.

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA

This worked for me after an upgrade from fc6 to fc7...

On a Fedora Core 6 machine the glx module was located:

/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so

On Fedora 7:

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so

/var/log/Xorg.0.log contains a line:
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
with == indicating this is a default setting.

SOLUTION:
I had an empty section in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file:

Section "Files"
EndSection

which I changed to :


Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules,/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/"
EndSection

I did not have to recompile the driver after this change. A "startx" from run level 3 or simply a normal reboot hopefully will get you going. Reference the xorg.conf man page ("man xorg.conf").

Thanks for the reply royboy. I forwarded the nvidia-bug-report.log to nvidia and got the following link:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490

As a note, xorg-xll-server-sdk is not in the default Fedora 7 repository (disappointingly niether is Neverball nor many other games, it appears).

I had to download the -sdk.rpm from rpm.pbone.net and then apply the switch to the installer in the second part of the post.

I prefer getting the module pre-compiled from Livna. Not having all those devel packages installed helps conserve disk space for one thing. I also get this neat little utility to help configure desktop effects:
http://4crito.com/screenshots/livna_nvidia.png

royboy626, thank you. Your suggestion worked like a charm.

thanks worked for me, but with a change because i use the X86_64 i had to do a little change to the line
just change "lib" for "lib64


Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules,/usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/"
EndSection

Thanks royboy626 worked OK for me

I have an AMD x86_64 box, what I needed to do was:
....

The 1.0-9755 Nvidia puts the modules in a different directory as royboy626 has said. However the latest driver 100.14.09 seem to set up OK.
There appears to be another problem. I have consistently had complete lock-up, only the reset button will do anything, with both drivers. There is nothing in any log file to indicate what has happened. Rythmbox continues to play the cd, so could this be the video driver or maybe the sound driver even the mouse driver?
I have gone back to the Fedora "nv" driver and the problem does not occur.

Johnev, please provide more information about your system configuration. Which CPU do you have? which version of Fedora? which video card? what else were you doing when the error occurred? does the error occur consistently?

Hi Mellison
System uses Asus P4V533-MX motherboard with 2.8GHz Pentium P4; Nvidia 5500 video card; 1Gbyte RAM; Packard Bell PS2 optical mouse; Soundblaster Audigy sound card; 80 Gbyte hard drive with Fedora 7 installed clean i.e. no other systems. This system was stable with Fedora Core 6.
Lock-up occurs within 30 minutes. RhythmBox is always playing a CD, but could be running anything else at the time. On one occasion the lock-up occurred when RhythmBox put up a balloon to indicate a new track
Regards
Johnev

well i noticed the nvnews as tarheel92x say they have the solution

now, the problem its the installer of nvidia detects the X11 as an older version and install the drive in a wrong folder "/usr/X11R6" now the solution of this as its say on
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490 is:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-version.run --x-module-path=`X -showDefaultModulePath 2>&1 | cut -d, -f1` --x-library-path=`X -showDefaultLibPath 2>&1`

where "NVIDIA-Linux-version.run" its the nvidia installer, this worked fine for me and i didnt need to do nothing to the x11... well nothing else than just set the
nv>nvidia :P