X11 issue

[Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@gmail.com>]

Hi:
Following the lines of successful setup of 3D nvidia driver with lenny
amd64, i met failure with lenny i386 on a old K7S5A Elite mainboard
with NV11DDR (GeForce2 MX200 rev b2). I also lost OpenGL, which I used
for several applications.

What i did:

# apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common module-assistant

# m-a -i -t prepare

# m-a clean,a-i -i -t -f nvidia-kernel-source

# depmod -a

# apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-dev mesa-utils

# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

(no X on reboot)

# dpkg-reconfigure -phogh xserver-xorg

(X yes, bot no nvidia driver.)

Then I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf,  adding ' Driver "nvidia" ' 'to the
' Section "Device" ', which worked with amd64 but not here

(no more X)

to regin X, I could either command

# dexconf

which removed the line ' Driver "nvidia" ' , or replace with ' Driver "nv" '
but in either case no more OpenGl, although libmotif3 is installed.

When trying to launch the scientific viewer Chimera, the error:

File "CHIMERA/share/chimera/tkgui.py", line 2525, in initializeGUI
  File "/usr/local/chimera/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py",
line 309, in checkConfig

  File "/usr/local/chimera/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Togl.py", line
27, in __init__
    Tkinter.Widget.__init__(self, master, "togl", cnf, kw)
  File "/usr/local/chimera/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line
1930, in __init__
    (widgetName, self._w) + extra + self._options(cnf))
_tkinter.TclError: X server has no OpenGL GLX extension
Couldn't configure togl widget


An inquiry about nvidia reports:
 dpkg -l '*nvidia*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  nvidia-glx     173.14.09-5    NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
ii  nvidia-glx-dev 173.14.09-5    NVIDIA binary Xorg driver development files
un  nvidia-glx-src <none>         (no description available)
un  nvidia-kernel- <none>         (no description available)
ii  nvidia-kernel- 173.14.09-5+2. NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.26
ii  nvidia-kernel- 20080825+1     NVIDIA binary kernel module common files
ii  nvidia-kernel- 173.14.09-5    NVIDIA binary kernel module source
un  nvidia-kernel- <none>         (no description available)
un  nvidia-setting <none>         (no description available)






Thanks for advice

francesco pietra