nvidia and GLX

emanresu · 10-20-2004, 01:45 AM

hello,

I am running FC 2 and my box uses nVidia GeForce 4 MX. I noticed that many of the screensavers, if it uses GLX to do 3D stuff, would not work at all. Instead, they show an error message:

Xlib: exntesion "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

antspotlight: display ":0.0" does not support the GLX extension

I have installed the latest driver from nVidia, and they claim to support GLX... so there must be some configuration issues... can someone help, please? Thanks

fblucher · 10-20-2004, 02:17 AM

Have you told X to load the nvidia module?

Have you told X to load the GLX module?

Have you checked the XFree86 log to see that the modules loaded correctly?

Seeya,
Finn.

emanresu · 10-20-2004, 02:31 AM

hello

yes, I told X to load the nv module,

yes, I told X to load GLX,

but there is something strange in the log...

Code:

(==) RandR enabled
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved!
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not found)
(**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

what does this mean? thanks.

fblucher · 10-20-2004, 02:33 AM

I'm pretty sure I said nvidia module, not nv module. The nv module does not support GLX, the nvidia module does.

emanresu · 10-20-2004, 10:46 AM

Awesome!!! worked like a charm! thanks a bunch!