[mythtv-users] Re: Someone PLEASE help. No OpenGL Transistions in Mythgallery

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 07:07:03AM -0700, Alan Hagge wrote:
> Howard Cokl wrote:
> 
> >I think I had a problem with glx in the beginning and
> >fixed it.  My problem was that in
> >/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions there was the
> >libglx.a (part of xorg) and X was finding that instead
> >of the nvidia/libglx.so so I:
> >#cd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/
> >#mv libglx.a xlibglx.a
> >#ln -s nvidia-graphics-1.0-7174/libglx.so.1.0.7174
> >libglx.so
> >#telinit 3; telinit 5
> >#grep -i glx /var/log/Xorg.o.log
> >(II) LoadModule: "glx"
> >(II) Loading
> >/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> >(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
> >(II) Loading extension GLX
> >(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
> >(II) Initializing extension GLX
> > 
> >
> Oh, good, you beat me to it.  I was going to mention the same thing (but 
> I'm at work and didn't have access to the exact filenames to mention).  
> This was with the ATrpms for nVidia.  My symptom was that it caused by 
> machine to bail out of X whenever any application used GLX calls 
> (glxgears, bzflag, etc.).  I'm sure that installing libglx.so.xxx into a 
> subdirectory of /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions was deliberate on 
> Axel's part, but its apparently not normal for X to check subdirectories 
> of that directory for additional extensions on startup, and I couldn't 
> figure out which config file to tweak to make it look there.

Make sure you have nvidia-graphics<driver> installed and use
nvidia-graphics-switch.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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