Upgraded frm 12.1 to 12.2 but now no nvidia GLX Glide --GeForce2 card
 

Hello
Just upgraded from Slackware 12.1 to 12.2.
I don't have and GLX Glide anymore with my Geforce2 MMX card.

I have installed the SlackBuilds from SlackBuilds.org for:
nvidia-legacy71-driver
nvidia-legacy71-kernel

And drivers and kernel work! -- just no GLX.

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From my Xorg.0.log I found this:
(EE) GLX is not supported with the Composite extension
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I read in another forum to disable the composite extension so
I put this in my xorg.conf:

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
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the server is not happy and crashes
and from my Xorg.0.log I found:

(*snip*)
(II) Initializing extension GLX

Backtrace:
0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80d8b5e]
1: [0xffffe400]
2: X(main+0x2ca) [0x806dbea]
3: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7dba390]
4: X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x20d) [0x806d121]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
(*end snip*)
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My Geforce2 MMX worked ok and had GlX in Slack 12.1.

Where should I look? The SlackBuild maybe??

Thanks,
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Anyway -- here is my whole xorg.conf file:
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# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder57) Wed Jul 2 12:30:48 PDT 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
# Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "false"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

#Section "Extensions"
# Option "Composite" "disable"
#EndSection

Section "Extensions"
#Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

this has been fixed with this it wa a kernel 2.6.27.7 here is the link you build it.
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12...gacy96-kernel/ download it build it.

If you have upgraded xorg-server and/or mesa in that process, you have overwritten the files of nvidia-driver. In that case just issue "nvidia-switch --nvidia" and everything should be fine again.

Found my solution:

I discovered that I was using the wrong legacy drivers/kernel
GeForce2 MMX AGP requires from SlackBuilds.org:

nvidia-legacy96-driver
nvidia-legacy96-kernel

This link may help others choose the correct drivers:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html