[NCLUG] NVIDIA GeForce 2

[Daniel Miles]

In the NVIDIA README files there is something about having to edit your
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and have it load GLX and specifically not
load DRI and one other thing that I can't remember off the top of my
head, you'll have to look that up but that should solve your problems.

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 20:27, C. J. Keist wrote:
> Hello,
>      Just about given up here.  I'm having no luck in getting this NVIDIA 
> GeForce 2 graphics card to work with RH 7.2.  I have downloaded the GLX and 
> Kernel drivers from NVIDIA and installed.  Install went through with out any 
> errors.  KDE comes up fine.  When I try to start tux this is what I get:
> 
> *** tuxracer error: Couldn't initialize video: Couldn't find matching GLX 
> visual (Success)
> 
> Has anyone else had any luck with this card?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> If this helps here is the output of xdpyinfo:
> 
> name of display:    :0.0
> version number:    11.0
> vendor string:    The XFree86 Project, Inc
> vendor release number:    40100000
> XFree86 version: 4.1.0
> maximum request size:  4194300 bytes
> motion buffer size:  256
> bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, LSBFirst, 32
> image byte order:    LSBFirst
> number of supported pixmap formats:    7
> supported pixmap formats:
>     depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
>     depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32
> keycode range:    minimum 8, maximum 255
> focus:  window 0x1e0000d, revert to PointerRoot
> number of extensions:    26
>     BIG-REQUESTS
>     DOUBLE-BUFFER
>     DPMS
>     Extended-Visual-Information
>     FontCache
>     GLX
>     LBX
>     MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
>     MIT-SHM
>     MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
>     NVIDIA-GLX
>     RENDER
>     SECURITY
>     SHAPE
>     SYNC
>     TOG-CUP
>     XC-APPGROUP
>     XC-MISC
>     XFree86-Bigfont
>     XFree86-DGA
>     XFree86-Misc
>     XFree86-VidModeExtension
>     XInputExtension
>     XKEYBOARD
>     XTEST
>     XVideo
> default screen number:    0
> number of screens:    1
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