NVIDIA Drivers dont work

Hey everyone. I am little new into the linux industry.

I am running Mandrak 8.0, and am using a Pine GeForce2 MX 32MB.

I downloaded the Linux Drivers from the website nvidia.com and installed the RPMs for the specific distro.

When I try to run a program which uses MesaGL, it doesn’t work. Can someone help me as to figuring out my prob?

Originally posted by freak901010:
[b]Hey everyone. I am little new into the linux industry.

I am running Mandrak 8.0, and am using a Pine GeForce2 MX 32MB.

I downloaded the Linux Drivers from the website nvidia.com and installed the RPMs for the specific distro.

When I try to run a program which uses MesaGL, it doesn’t work. Can someone help me as to figuring out my prob?[/b]

Run program in console using & and tell what it prints.

try something like gears & or what ever program you are trying.

It says something like ‘GLX not found on display 0:0’

That was with my GPUCheck program from Pete Berret originally designed for emulation use.

I haven’t tryed running Mesa Gears or something else in the console yet, as I accidentally deleted my Linux partitions when I reinstalled Win2k. (OOPS)

Originally posted by freak901010:
[b]It says something like ‘GLX not found on display 0:0’

That was with my GPUCheck program from Pete Berret originally designed for emulation use.

I haven’t tryed running Mesa Gears or something else in the console yet, as I accidentally deleted my Linux partitions when I reinstalled Win2k. (OOPS)[/b]

Either you have not installed nvidia_glx or
have not added line -> load “glx” to XF86Config-4 file.

check http://www.nvidia.com/docs/lo/959/SUPP/NVLinuxReleaseNotes_1512.pdf

Thanks for the help. Everything now works perfectly!

Ok ,I have installed the nVidia driver.
I run the KDE and then run glxinfo
I recive that message too.But
I looked to /var/log/XFree.08**
and there are written “(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load glX”.Where can I download
the libglx.a(I can’t it find in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules)?
thanks

[This message has been edited by FoxDie (edited 10-01-2001).]

Originally posted by FoxDie:
[b]Ok ,I have installed the nVidia driver.
I run the KDE and then run glxinfo
I recive that message too.But
I looked to /var/log/XFree.08**
and there are written “(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load glX”.Where can I download
the libglx.a(I can’t it find in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules)?
thanks

[This message has been edited by FoxDie (edited 10-01-2001).][/b]

Have you installed both nvidia_kernel and nvidia_glx ??

and edited XF86Config-4 file like explained in releasenotes ?

also do you have xfree 4.* , nvidia drivers do not work in xfree 3.*

If you have done all that, what distro you have ?

did you use either tar or rpm files ?

was there any error or warning messages ?

I forgot create the link for glx.so.1541.

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