[desktop-discuss] nVidia driver 96.43.05 install OK, but GLX not available.

[Mark Wright]

Hello shao xuan,

Thanks, the Xorg.0.log contains these lines:

(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module glx
(II) UnloadModule: "glx"
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)

I am kind of guessing.  As root please try editing the
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file. After the line:

  Section "Files"

please add the new line:

     ModulePath      
"/usr/X11/lib/modules/extensions/NVIDIA:/usr/X11/lib/modules/extensions:/usr/X11/lib/modules"

like in this diff:

goanna% diff -wc xorg.conf xorg.conf.new
*** xorg.conf   Mon Jun 16 02:18:30 2008
--- xorg.conf.new       Mon Jun 16 22:11:32 2008
***************
*** 12,17 ****
--- 12,18 ----
  EndSection
  
  Section "Files"
+     ModulePath      
"/usr/X11/lib/modules/extensions/NVIDIA:/usr/X11/lib/modules/extensions:/usr/X11/lib/modules"
      RgbPath         "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
      FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
      FontPath        "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
goanna% 

Then please reboot.

Thanks, Mark

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