Problems with Fedora Core 2 and NVIDIA 6106 Linux Drivers
Brian Hanks
bhanks at crackedweasel.org
Tue Jul 27 10:40:11 UTC 2004
> On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 15:07, Costa, Marcelo Ferreira da wrote:
> > I hav problems with Fedora Core 2 and NVIDIA 6106 drivers. When I install
> > the NVIDIA package drivers on Fedora Core 2 original CD´s installation, my
> > machine freezes (no response, I can´t go to shell or do anything). Somebody
> > knows what I need to do?
> >
> > Marcelo
I had the exact same problem and I tried everything without any luck.
Then, I realized that the NVIDIA driver was linked to the wrong client
libraries. You can verify this by running 'glxinfo | less'. Look for
the "server glx", "client glx", and "direct rendering" sections near the
top. My "client glx" section showed version = 1.2 and vendor = SGI.
I tried re-running 'ldconfig', but it didn't fix anything. So, I
tracked down the appropriate libraries by reading the NVIDIA README
doc. I moved these into place and created the necessary sym links, then
re-ran 'ldconfig'.
Since then, everything is working fine. The output of 'glxinfo' now
shows version = 1.3 for both server and client and vendor = NVIDIA for
both server and client.
Other useful commands are:
'xdpyinfo | less'
'ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears'
'cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status'
If this is indeed your issue and you need additional help, just let me
know.
-Brian Hanks
bhanks at crackedweasel.org
bhanks at bhanks.com
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