Re: nv vs. nvidia - glx - today

From: Hugo Vanwoerkom (hvw59601_at_care2.com)
Date: 10/30/04

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:23:21 -0500

    Alvin Oga wrote:
    > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
    >
    >
    >>> # watch out for libglut*.a vs libglut.so.* too
    >>>
    >>
    >>I got this:
    >>
    >>733249 496 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 500480 Sep 28 07:09
    >>/usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1.3
    >>733038 656 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 666440 Sep 28 07:09
    >>/usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.a
    >>
    >>Now I checked those against what is on CD#1 of Sarge and they are the same.
    >>What do you mean by "today's date"?
    >
    >
    > if you installed nvidia's driver from nvidia ( nvidia-*6111* )
    > than you might find libglut* in other places ( /usr/lib ) besides in
    > addition to the default sarge install at /usr/X11R6/lib
    >
    > btw... libGLU is NOT the same as libglut (which is needed for glx/openGL)
    >

    Right. So I installed libglut, but with the nv driver I still get:

    Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
    Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual

    when running glxgears. And the GLX extension points to nvidia.6111.

    Hugo 

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