RE: kernel upgrade has made nvidia 3D rendering not turn on.....
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> From: mikef20000@hotmail.com
> To: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
> Subject: RE: kernel upgrade has made nvidia 3D rendering not turn on.....
> Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 15:27:25 +0000
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>> 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).
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> THis was the error. I keep using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to make a new xorg file whenever I get a new kernel. For some reason it often completely fails to produce the menu where you choose the driver manufacturer and it puts nv in there not nvidia and I keep forgetting this even though I did the rest of the stuff correctly to get the nvidia card working.
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> I am not going to do this any more.
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> I will just force the new kernel and new glx driver and e.g. any new version of xorg to use the old xorg file that worked with the previous kernel.
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> Regards
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> MF
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>> Len Sorensen
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