Another Casualty of NVIDIA 41.49 Install

[jerryyyyy]

I have a Dell 340 with the NVIDIA 4900 and have tried to follow all the comments here as well as NVIDIAs for this upgrade, but have come up lacking.
I got no errors with the rpms and selected the right ones by using the NVchooser, but when I recompile and try to run my graphics program I get:

"GLUT: fatal error in PROGRAM NAME) visual with necessary capabilities not found.

When I run glxinfo I get "couldn't find RGBGLX visual".

I am relatively novice to linux moving this software from a flight simulator and an SGI machine to this Dell, but it sounds like a very basic problem I may be missing.

Any ideas? I hate to have to reinstall RedHat 8.0 again- I had to do this once before to get my flat panel drivers to work and do not look forward to it.

BTW, when I installed it gave me a warning that it was installing over Mesa- only warning I saw.

I have posted this below- but think it will be buried. Help sorely needed.

[pkaler]

Originally posted by jerryyyyy:

When I run glxinfo I get "couldn't find RGBGLX visual".

BTW, when I installed it gave me a warning that it was installing over Mesa- only warning I saw.

Did you use source rpms or tarballs? You need to compile them yourself.

Here's how I installed:
Shutdown X
# rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm
# rpm -ivf --force /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.i386.rpm
# rpmbuild --rebuild NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.src.rpm
# rpm -ivf --force /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm

You probably need to reinstall glut as well.

[pkaler]

Btw, some nVidia cards for laptops are not supported by nVidia. You have to go to the laptop manufacturer.

[richardve]

Read the first few lines from the README file.. you'll have to load the glx module.


[This message has been edited by richardve (edited 12-17-2002).]

[jerryyyyy]

I have tried all the abovesuggestions and this is what I get:

[root@linux1 root]# glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x21 16 tc 0 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
[root@linux1 root]#

Is there something else I need to install??? Glut???

[jerryyyyy]

This is working fine now- was the X windows conf file.

Note, that NICEST fog seems implemented.