Suse 10.1 Open Gl not working

jebaird · 11-18-2006, 12:50 PM

Hello all
After installing the lastest Nvidia drivers I can't use any thing that uses Open Gl. Sax says that 3d is enabled. If I go to the console and type glxgears it out puts this:

jesse@linux-pweg:~> glxgears
Segmentation fault

I have checked /var/log/messages , nothing there. Dose any one have any ideas?

Steel_J · 11-18-2006, 05:19 PM

First, go here: http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/d...en/sec.3d.html

It's probably going to help you with your problem.

Second, did you try running Doom3 or Quake4 or even tuxracer? If they work well, the seg fault you get from glxgears is caused by something else.

If they don't work,then 3d is not enabled whatever Sax says.

jebaird · 11-18-2006, 06:20 PM

I know why my 3d dose not work.

Verifying driver installation:
nvidia ... strings: '/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/updates/drivers/nvidia_drv.so': No such file
done.

I tried reinstalling the driver and I still got this part from 3Ddiag. In /var/log/nvidia-installer-log it dose not look like there are any errors. Do you think that I could just download the file and put it in that path?

Steel_J · 11-20-2006, 12:10 AM

At this point there si no harm in trying so. You can just remove it after if it causes a problem.

This makes me think your distro and the driver install might not have the same directory tree. Not every distro out there follows the UNIX standard file directory order.

Make a search for "nvidia_drv.so" on your system just to see if it's not somewhere else.

...and if you do copy it manually, don't forget to give it permission (chmod 555 or +rx)

jebaird · 11-21-2006, 01:10 PM

after putting the file "nvidia_drv.so" in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/updates/drivers/ 3Diag says that it can find the dirver. but when trying to run glxgears I still get a segmentation fault. trying to run a game with 3d does not work either. do you know of any other log/places that I could look for some info to what is causing this?
thanks

jebaird · 11-27-2006, 02:07 PM

so I figured it out. I uninstalled NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9629-pkg1.run and I installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8774-pkg1 and copied /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/updates/drivers/nvidia.so

Steel_J · 11-28-2006, 09:32 PM

Humm..yep! Often going back to earlier versions is the way to go.

Glad you fixed it.