nVidia and Squeak and libGL

[Net Llama!]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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

I've seen the nvidia kernel module get invalidated after a reboot as well 
in FC, and its a kudzu problem.  The only workaround is to (re)install the 
nvidia driver after rebooting the system, or prevent kudzu from running.

Any problems that you're having after installing the nvidia driver require 
an nvidia-bug-report.log (per the driver README).

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