Re: my nvidia 3D acceleration seems to have conked out.....
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 07:59:24AM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
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> Dear Folks,
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> I started using a big 37" TV/computer monitor with a AMD64 3200 box I have with an Nvidia 8500GT card in it. For a time I had the Nvidia card correctly configured and the kernel modified. I think the kernel is still OK, but now the 3D graphics acceleration has conked out.
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> spc1-burn4-0-0-cust452:/home/mikef# glxinfo |grep rendering
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> spc1-burn4-0-0-cust452:/home/mikef#
Just remember to do the m-a step after each kernel upgrade (and after
each nvidia driver update). Support for the new 2.6.25 kernel only went
into the 169.12-2 package this weekend, so before that it simply
wouldn't compile.
--
Len Sorensen
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