GLX problem
Hello
I'm using Slackware 10.2 and I have a Geforce DDR video card. The last nvidia driver that supports that card is version 1.0-7174. When I installed it, the X server started to crash each time I tried to load it: Caught signal 11. Server aborting. In the xorg.log file I noticed it crashed after trying to initialize the GLX extension. So I removed "Load "glx"" from the Module section in xorg.conf. Now the X server starts without problems. But as you can guess I don't have OpenGL support under X. Any solutions of the problem are appreciated ;) !:Pengy: :Pengy: :Pengy: |
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Try re-installing the nvidia driver. Samac |
thanks, tried that already
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Maybe you should start with telling us how (what commands) you installed the Nvidia driver?
Eric |
Just the ordinary: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run. And nothing more special.
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Could tell me a little more about the video card? Specifically what card is it? I've never heard of Geforce DDR.
Nevermind, a google search showed me that this card is old as dirt. Did it ever have opengl functioning? |
Oh, yes, it is quite old - the first release of the Geforce series (Geforce256). But it still works quite well. The manual even says it is optimized for DirectX 7 and OpenGL features :p :p :p
I'll probably try with an older driver. |
Edit: Sorry, I didn't read well enough.
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Well, I don't really think the age of the card is the problem. I have a eVGA nVidia Geforce6 6600 GT and have the same problem with 10.2 (kernel 2.4.31). Installation of nVidia's 7676 driver goes without a hitch (completely stock 10.2). I change vesa to nvidia in the stock xorg.conf and then X halts right at GLX. I tried using my xorg.conf from 10.1 and -current (less the last X update before 10.2), it does the same thing. I tried using an older nvidia driver, same problem. I noticed that Pat compiled X in 10.2 with kernel 2.6.13, could this be the problem?
MagicMan |
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Rather interesting to me. Anyone have any clue why this could be? |
Same exact problems here. Someone _definately_ needs to contact pat about this!
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Yep... just another nVidia driver issue. I had the problem as you ppl. I solved it by going to an the 6111 driver from nVidia. It is smaller and apparently more stable for this video card.
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I tried all the 7xxx drivers and none of them worked. I think this is not nvidia drvivers issue, because they worked fine for me with the 10.1 version.
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glblur: display ":0.0" does not support the GLX extension Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0" the latter is displayed about 8 or 10 times in a row after you hit the test button in the Control Center dialog. However, these messages were shown on the terminal and I did not see them until after exiting my X session. HTH |
HAHAHAH! Total RTFM!
I snagged the Readme for the nVid linux driver. The HowTo here (I think it was here, maybe in another thread) says in your xorg.conf file you want to set your driver to Driver "nv" Well apparently this must have changed somewhere down the line, as in the Readme in Chapter 3, it says to remove that "nv" driver and use Driver "nvidia" Try that... everything just falls into place! P.S. this is with the 7676 driver. |
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