Hello, What does the Xorg log say when starting X? Check that there are no warning about kernel and GLX version mismatches. Does /etc/X11/Xorg.conf explicity use the nvidia driver as opposed to nv? What was the rational for selecting the legacy drivers? I did accidentally and it wasn't until I installed the standard kernel and GLX modules that the system came right. My recommendation would be to remove the legacy nvidia drivers and install the standard nvidia kernel and GLX libraries. Run the nvidia-config enable (assuming you are using ubuntu) Check you /etc/X11/Xorg.conf file and make sure the nvidia driver is selected and that the GLX libraries are also loaded. Reboot and if problems check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for the errors. If you are running you own kernel you might need to download the installer script off the nvidia website and run that against your own kernel. You'll then need make, autoconf, binutils and all those other compilation goodies for the script to run. Does that help? Chris On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:29, zcat wrote:
When I first upgraded to breezy I was mildly annoyed that the nvidia drivers broke, I had to install nvidia-legacy instead, and that all of the openGL stuff stopped working although the driver appeared to be loading and xorg seems to think everything is in order. Programs like glxgears would tell me I didn't have GLX. Programs like mplayer would work with "-vo xv" which was good enough most of the time so I didn't worry about it too much.
Just recently I thought I would try to sort this out properly. I removed all of the 'restricted' modules and glx stuff, including config, via synaptic, then cleanly reinstalled the nvidia-legacy kernel modules and nvidia-glx-legacy package.
Now glxgears exits with a segfault. Worse, so does mplayer even when I use -vo xv and even if I'm trying to play some audio-only file (or even no file at all!)
Where to I even begin trying to find out what's messed up and how to fix it?!
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