New Nvidia driver with 4k stack support is out

Wed Jul 7 01:25:59 UTC 2004

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 09:58 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 July 2004 07:30, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> >On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 06:29 -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 14:17 +1200, Greg Trounson wrote:
> >> > Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> >> > > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 15:27 +0930, Mark Bradbury wrote:
> >> > >>Get it while its hot
> >> > >>
> >> > >>ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6106/README.tx
> >> > >>t
> >> > >> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6106/NVIDIA-
> >> > >>Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run
> >> > >
> >> > > Got it.  However, I am not working:
> >> > >
> >> > > ==============================================================
> >> > >=
> >> > >
> >> > > [williams at matrix williams]$ glxinfo
> >> > > name of 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".
> >> > > Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual
> >> > > ==============================================================
> >> > >
> >> > > What am I missing??
> >> >
> >> > What driver are you using?
> >>
> >> I am using the NVIDIA driver
> >>
> >> > Check in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or /etc/X11/XF86Config if
> >> > you're using FC1) that your video driver is set to 'nvidia' and
> >> > not 'nv' or 'vesa'.
> >>
> >> I am using Fedora Core 2.
> >>
> >> > You should have a section that looks like this:
> >> > Section "Device"
> >> >          Identifier  "Videocard0"
> >> >          Driver      "nvidia"
> >> >          VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
> >> >          BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)"
> >> > EndSection
> >>
> >> My section indeed is as above:
> >> ==================================================================
> >>========= Section "Device"
> >>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
> >>         Driver      "nvidia"
> >>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
> >>         BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)"
> >> EndSection
> >> ==================================================================
> >>=========
> >>
> >> What linux kernel are you using?
> >> What version of gcc are you using?
> >>
> >>
> >> For me:
> >> linux kernel -- kernel-2.6.7-1.471
> >> gcc -- gcc-3.4.0-7
> >>
> >> To build the driver I am doing the following:
> >> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run --add-this-kernel
> >>
> >> I will read the instructions and try again
> >
> >Still no luck:
> >When booting up I get can't find nvidia module
> >====================================================================
> >======= Jul  6 06:55:55 matrix udev[3953]: creating device node
> > '/udev/nvidia0' Jul  6 06:55:55 matrix udev[3947]: creating device
> > node '/udev/ nvidiactl'
> >Jul  6 07:06:35 matrix nvidia: Disabling nvidia driver succeeded
> >Jul  6 07:08:50 matrix nvidia: Checking for nvidia kernel module
> > failed Jul  6 07:08:51 matrix nvidia: Disabling nvidia driver
> > succeeded
> > ===================================================================
> >======== Next, the system automatically modifies my xorg.conf and
> > uses nv instead.
> >
> >Hmmm.
> >
> Did you run depmod -a 2.6.whatever-you're-running after installing the 
> nvidia drivers?
> 
> That would be one reason it cannot find the driver.
> and it sounds as if a re-run of ldconfig might be in order.
Okay, I have performed your recommendations and still it does not work:
=============================================================================
[williams at matrix log]$ grep glx Xorg.0.log
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
(II) UnloadModule: "glx"
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (loader failed, 7)
[williams at matrix log]$ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxinfo
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00254000)
        libGLU.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0x00377000)
        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/nvidia/tls/libGL.so.1 (0x002a2000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00c96000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00bcc000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00111000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x0055f000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x005ff000)
        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x00d47000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00fd5000)
        libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib/nvidia/tls/libGLcore.so.1
(0x02082000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00cb9000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00890000)
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> 
> >> > Greg
> >>
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> >Ernest L. Williams Jr.
> >SNS Control Systems Group
> >Oak Ridge National Labs
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> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
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