Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 11:09:07 -0400, H.S. wrote:
>> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>>
>>>> So, the questions is, how do I get my little program to work without
>>>> installing Nvidia driver?
>>> I would try to uncomment the 'Load "glx"' line in your xorg.conf. You
>>> probably commented out that line because the proprietary nvidia driver
>>> requires you to do so, but AFAIK the "nv" driver does need the normal
>>> Xorg glx module if you want to use the GLX extension.
>>>
>> Okay. I just tried that and from the Xorg log file I see that it being
>> loaded okay, but it is not being initialized:
>> $> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep '(EE)'
>> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>> (EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
>> (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not
>> found)
>>
>>
>> I am using 2.6.21 Debian kernel and
>> $> dpkg -l *nvidia* | grep ^ii | gawk '{print $1 " " $2 "\t" $3}'
>> ii nvidia-glx 1.0.8776-4
>> ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.17-2-486 1.0.8776-4+2.6.17-9
>> ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-3-486 1.0.8776-4+2.6.18-7
>> ii nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1
>> ii nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.8776-4
>>
>> What do I try next?
>
> I think the above error message means that your X is presently still
> loading nvidia's glx module (which only works with nvidia's driver). The
> nvidia-glx package overwrites the original Xorg glx module and uses
> dpkg-divert to make sure that nvidia's glx module stays in place.
> Purging the nvidia-glx package should give you the original Xorg glx
> module back. Make sure you use "purge" and not just "remove" because
> otherwise an initscript stays on your system which could cause trouble.
> (I think this issue is fixed now, but it cannot hurt to be on the safe
> side.)
>
That worked. Did "sudo aptitude --purge remove nvidia-glx", logged out,
restarted gdm and logged back in and glx worked. It is veeery slow
(understandably) but my OpenGL program runs at least.
BTW, I get this in Xorg's log file:
$> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep '(EE)'
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
If the second error a problem? Is trying to remove it worthwhile?
Thanks,
->HS
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