Re: nv vs. nvidia - glx - today

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Alvin Oga wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
>
> > > 	# watch out for libglut*.a  vs libglut.so.* too
> >
> > I got this:
> >
> > 733249  496 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       500480 Sep 28 07:09 
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1.3
> > 733038  656 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       666440 Sep 28 07:09 
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.a
> >
> > Now I checked those against what is on CD#1 of Sarge and they are the same.
> > What do you mean by "today's date"?
>
>
> if you installed nvidia's driver from nvidia ( nvidia-*6111* ) 
> than you might find libglut* in other places ( /usr/lib ) besides in
> addition to the default sarge install at /usr/X11R6/lib
>
> btw... libGLU is NOT the same as libglut (which is needed for glx/openGL)

Right. So I installed libglut, but with the nv driver I still get:

Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

when running glxgears. And the GLX extension points to nvidia.6111.

Hugo