kmod-nvidia not working in kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5
Lonni J Friedman
netllama at gmail.com
Sun Jul 2 15:46:47 UTC 2006
On 7/2/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry I was not clear. What I mean was, after installing kmod-nvidia I can
> still use X. There is no difference between installing kmod-nvidia and not
> installing. Either way I can't use the graphics acceralation.
>
> glxinfo gives me
> ============================
> name of display: :0.0
>
> visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
> id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0x21 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
> 0x22 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
>
> ===============================
>
> anyway what does it mean?
It means that you're not using the nvidia X driver. See the driver
README for instructions.
>
> Hope this information will help.
>
>
>
> >
> " mean? what does the
> output from glxinfo look like?
>
> On 7/1/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have recently updated the kernel from 2.6.15 to 2.6.17 and installed the
> > kmod-nvidia from livna but I can't run my GL based screen savers. Display
> is
> > wokring fine, only GL is not working. Do you have any experience like
> this?
> > Anybody knows the work around?
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