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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] glx, radeon, and partition copying
  • Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:44:04 -0700

Quoting Mathieu L <lejatorn AT linuxmail.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry if it's been asked already but I'm still on a 56K connection (for
> 2 or 3 more weeks) so it's not easy to stay up to date and browse all
> the archives.
> Here is what I did: I dispeled NVIDIA drivers, I recasted (-c -r) xorg
> (6.7.0) and I answered no to the self cast of nvidia triggered by xorg.
> Now, when I try to launch glxgears I get this:
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
> and it's the same wether or not I have "Load "glx"" in my xorg.conf.
> Anyone having a clue please?

Regular xorg|xfree86 etc. do not provide DRI/GLX for nvidia cards (via the
"nv"
driver). If you want DRI/GLX you'll need the NVIDIA driver installed and X set
to use the "nvidia" driver.
<snip>

-sandalle

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