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.

Originally posted by jerryyyyy:
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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.

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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.

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

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).]

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???

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

Note, that NICEST fog seems implemented.

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