From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Eb8jD-000110-N8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:40:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAD3d5Ps003190; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:39:05 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAD3VIPS031824 for ; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:31:19 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eb8aM-00069Q-Mj for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:31:18 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (c-67-160-130-118.hsd1.wa.comcast.net[67.160.130.118]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005111303311601300ik759e>; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:31:17 +0000 Message-ID: <4376B378.9080205@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:31:04 -0800 From: Pingveno User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051025) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver problem References: <85901b690511121906y776a8a8dydffc5f749fe14ce9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <85901b690511121906y776a8a8dydffc5f749fe14ce9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fc0da94d-db13-48c1-8e9e-51c259eabd19 X-Archives-Hash: e3257f13c2741a46220ffcf5bf893f5f I am by no means an expert on this subject, but any time you have an X server problem, you run "startx -- :1" from a shell. This starts the X server up on virtual terminal 8. The X server starts dumping out information, which might be helpful for diagnostics. -Pingveno sempsteen wrote: > Hi, > I've installed the nvidia drivers by the walkthrough of "Gentoo Linux > nVidia Guide". Emerge installed "nvidia-glx v1.0.6629-r6" and > "nvidia-kernel v1.0.6629-r4" with no problems and i did the necessary > changes in the "xorg.conf" file. Then i tested my card with "glxinfo | > grep direct" and "glxgears" and i got errors: > > glxinfo | grep direct > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > > glxgears > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual. > > Also after a restart gdm couln't start with a X server error: > Failed to start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely > that it is not set up correctly... > > I searched the net but couldn't find a solution yet. Please help me to > solve this problem, thanks. > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list