Re: No luck with nvidia-x11-drv on Fedora Core 6.

2006/10/29, Matthias Saou <
thias@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>:
>
> Philippe A. wrote :
> > I am unable to get nvidia-x11-drv to compile during boot. I'm told the


You're doing some pretty weird stuff! Why rebuild an entire kernel? And
> why not just try and use its kernel-devel sub-package?
> But could the very first issue not simply be the "i586 kernel is
> installed instead of i686" bug if you were already seeing it with the
> original kernel? It's been mentioned here already :


I didn't rebuild the entire kernel. The only way I could do some progress
was by installing the kernel source. But you were right about the kernel
version. I have installed the 686 package. Now the driver installs
correctly. That's pretty sweet stuff.

I'm having other sorts of problems though. When I enable desktop effects,
I'm getting the following messages:

compiz: /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.so.1: no version information available
(required by /usr/lib/tls/libGL.so.1)
compiz: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.so.1: undefined
symbol: _nv000037gl

I see the same messages when running glxgears or glxinfo. That's worrying!

Strangely, I can see in Xorg.0.log that GLX is found and loaded:

(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
        compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.9626
        Module class: X.Org Server Extension
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1

Do you have any idea how GLX got broken and how to fix it?

Thanks!