Re: X11 issue

["Michael M. Moore" <michael@writemoore.net>]

On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 01:27 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> 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)

Having just gone through this exercise myself, I can't see anything
wrong with what you did, nor offer any reasons why it might not be
working.  Might it have something to do with the mainboard, which you
said is old?

My only suggestion would be to try using the pre-built module rather
that going the module-assistant route.  AFAIK, there's no reason one
should work and the other shouldn't, but in the absence of better ideas
it is worth a shot.

-- 
Michael M.