nVidia and Squeak and libGL

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 11:21 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 17:25 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> >
> >> Rip out whatever third party RPMs you installed for the nvidia driver,
> >> then install the real deal.
> >
> > OK, I ripped out the kmod-nvidia from the livna repo, switched to init 3
> > and re-ran the installer. Rebooted. It seems now that the response time
> > is really slow, I'm visibly seeing the refresh page flipping in Slo-mo.
> > You run Fedora, do I remove anything else from the standard install?
> >
> > GLX gears won't run
> >
> > [root at iam ~]# glxgears
> > Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> > Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
> > [root at iam ~]#
> >
> > I let the installer set up the conf files, so do I hand-edit the xorg
> > conf file? One-step-at-a-time, Ric
> 
> What does your X log look like?
It's loading everything, according to the log, as I had to reload the
kmod-nvidia rpm from livna to get my machine back to working. That's why
I asked, as I don't know sh*t about why one is different from the other
and what specifically had to be removed. 

While I have a 64bit machine, I'm running i686. I removed kmod-nvidia,
went to run level 3, ran the installer which had to compile. I let it do
it's thing and run all over anything it needed to and it seemed to
install OK. I re-booted and did not get the nvidia logo, which I cherish
immensely. Got a boot message saying it could not find the nvidia.ko
file to load. I found the nvidia.ko file where it should be yet it
wouldn't load up correctly, so I just re-installed the livna version and
I'm back up and running. I have no clue as to what failed nor how. Ric

 

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