ATI and GLX graphics
Daniel Buggie
buggie at best.com
Wed Oct 4 21:47:47 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:59 -0400, Margaret Doll wrote:
> I had a system with a NVIDIA card, but the images on the screen were
> fuzzy. I had GLX for the NVDIA card installed.
>
> I replaced the graphics card with an ATI card and am now trying to
> get the GLX graphics working again.
>
> I have tried to delete all references and drivers for the NVDIA card
> from the system.
> I have upgraded the system from FC 2 to FC 3 to separate the NVDIA
> drivers from the kernel.
> I have "sh ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run"
>
> When I reboot the system, glx does not work.
>
> Xorg.0.log contains:
> (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not found)
>
> I don't see any warning messages in /var/log/messages concerning the
> graphics.
>
> How can I get glx working on this system?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
You might want to look at using the livna repository for your Fedora
ATI/NVIDIA driver needs:
http://rpm.livna.org/
Daniel
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