On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 07:26:24AM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Dear Folks, > > I forgot to use protection and the stork delivered a new kernel to my machine > in the middle of the night again.... > > So I had to re do the nvidia driver stuff again..... > > The machine is an AMD64 box with a 3200 Sempron chip on it and a 8500GT > Nvidia graphics card. > > I now have the following kernel > > spc1-burn4-0-0-cust452:/home/mikef# uname -r > 2.6.25-2-amd64 > > Here is the output of m-a a-i -t nvidia-kernel: > > spc1-burn4-0-0-cust452:/home/mikef# m-a a-i -t nvidia-kernel > . > Updated infos about 1 packages > Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.25-2-amd64 > Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-amd64/build > apt-get install build-essential > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > build-essential is already the newest version. > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: > libavutil1d libnet-dbus-perl libfile-desktopentry-perl libavcodec1d > libfile-basedir-perl libpoppler2 libpoppler-glib2 libpostproc1d libdc1394-13 > libavformat1d > system-tools-backends libxml-twig-perl xutils-dev > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. > > Done! > unpack > Extracting the package tarball, /usr/src/nvidia-kernel.tar.bz2, please wait... > Target package file > /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-2.6.25-2-amd64_169.12-4+2.6.25-4_amd64.deb already > exists, not rebuilding! > (however, you could use the -f switch to ignore it) > dpkg -Ei /usr/src/nvidia-kernel-2.6.25-2-amd64_169.12-4+2.6.25-4_amd64.deb > Version 169.12-4+2.6.25-4 of nvidia-kernel-2.6.25-2-amd64 already installed, > skipping. > > Everything has worked that debian nvidia howto says you are meant to do (at > least I think so) but the 3d rendering doesn't seem to come on: > > > spc1-burn4-0-0-cust452:/home/mikef# glxinfo |grep rendering > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Does your /etc/X11/xorg.conf say driver nv or driver nvidia? Only driver nvidia does GLX (and requires that the nvidia-glx package be installed). -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
