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Re: kernel upgrade has made nvidia 3D rendering not turn on.....



On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 07:26:24AM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> 
> Dear Folks,
> 
> I forgot to use protection and the stork delivered a new kernel to my machine in the middle of the night again....
> 
> So I had to re do the nvidia driver stuff again.....
> 
> The machine is an AMD64 box with a 3200 Sempron chip on it and a 8500GT Nvidia graphics card.
> 
> I now have the following kernel
> 
> spc1-burn4-0-0-cust452:/home/mikef# uname -r
> 2.6.25-2-amd64
> 
> Here is the output of  m-a a-i -t nvidia-kernel:
> 
> spc1-burn4-0-0-cust452:/home/mikef# m-a a-i -t nvidia-kernel
> .
> Updated infos about 1 packages
> Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.25-2-amd64
> Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-amd64/build
> apt-get install build-essential 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> build-essential is already the newest version.
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
>   libavutil1d libnet-dbus-perl libfile-desktopentry-perl libavcodec1d libfile-basedir-perl libpoppler2 libpoppler-glib2 libpostproc1d libdc1394-13 libavformat1d
>   system-tools-backends libxml-twig-perl xutils-dev
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
> 
> Done!
> unpack 
> Extracting the package tarball, /usr/src/nvidia-kernel.tar.bz2, please wait...
> Target package file /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-2.6.25-2-amd64_169.12-4+2.6.25-4_amd64.deb already exists, not rebuilding!
> (however, you could use the -f switch to ignore it)
> dpkg -Ei /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-2.6.25-2-amd64_169.12-4+2.6.25-4_amd64.deb 
> Version 169.12-4+2.6.25-4 of nvidia-kernel-2.6.25-2-amd64 already installed, skipping.
> 
> Everything has worked that debian nvidia howto says you are meant to do (at least I think so) but the 3d rendering doesn't seem to come on:
> 
> 
> 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".

Does your /etc/X11/xorg.conf say driver nv or driver nvidia?  Only
driver nvidia does GLX (and requires that the nvidia-glx package be
installed).

-- 
Len Sorensen


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