[TriLUG] GLX extensions?

Thomas Mayfield tgmayfield at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 23:44:11 EDT 2005


On 4/15/05, paul <ppeeler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >I've had some problems with the nvidia driver, but have successfully
> > >compiled it and installed it about a year ago on Fedora Core 1, just
> > >about a week ago on Debian Sarge, and a few days ago on Ubuntu Hoary.
> > >I've never tried leaving those lines active, but I'll try again
> > >tonight and re-enable them, and see if I get the same symptoms you do.
> 
> > >--Thomas
> 
> Was the trial for using the nvidia driver without loading dri and
> glcore verified?
> 
> Paul

I re-enabled the two lines in my xorg.conf (GLcore and dri load
statements), restarted X, and was able to successfully play OpenGL
games with no ill effects.  So, without delving into nVidia's
technical specs, I've no idea why they request that those two be
disabled.

--Thomas



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