LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/nvidia glxgears

[John Schmitt]

I have the nvidia driver from rpmfusion installed.  All my OpenGL apps are accelerated and work well except for one thing:

$ glxgears 
Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

# glxgears does not run

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/nvidia glxgears    

# glxgears runs the way you expect

I've uninstalled and reinstalled the nvidia drivers, mesa and all their dependencies a few times which did not change this.  I removed /etc/ld.so.cache and ran ldconfig which did not change the behaviour.

What is going on?  How do I fix this?

John

Linux myhost.mydomain.tld 2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 30 14:38:32 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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