OpenGl? Says i have no direct rendering

[weazol]

I just installed debian on my computer and I am trying to get World of Warcraft to work under wine. But first I need opengl. I have a Nvidia6600gt.

when I run

glxinfo | grep rendering

I get

direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)

Now I dont know much about linux so im not sure what to do with the libgl thing.

and here is my xorg conf

# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc104"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

[coopstah13]

you need to install the nvidia proprietary driver in order to have 3d support
you can download it on the nvidia website, they should have instructions for how to install it, most likely you will need to install the package build-essential first

[weazol]

ok I am trying to install the nvidia driver and it says I need to exit the X server. I tried ctrl alt f1 and that did the same thing.

[coopstah13]

i can only assume you are running gnome, what you need to do is switch to that terminal like you did (ctrl + alt + F1) and login, I'm not sure if sudo is set up on debian or not, so try

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

if not, you will have to login as root and run that command instead

su
/etc/init.d/gdm stop

this will stop the x server (if you are using gnome)

[weazol]

Ok now that got the installer working which brings me to this point.
It said I have no precompiled kernel interface and it asked if I wanted it to attempt to download one from NVIDIA so I clicked yes.
Then it popped up saying No matching interface on FTP
And it asked if I wanted the installer to compile one. I clicked yes
The final error came up saying Compiler is using gcc 4.1 does not match the current gcc4.3.

[coopstah13]

so i'm guessing, it said that the kernel is compiled with gcc4.1 and the compiler the driver is trying to use is gcc4.3, this is fairly easy to solve, simply install gcc4.1 with this command (using sudo or login as root)

apt-get install gcc-4.1

now before you run the installer file, enter this code in the terminal

export CC=gcc-4.1

this will tell the installer to use that compiler

note I am just editing this, i forgot to put export in that command

[weazol]

ok now it says unable to find kernel source tree for the currently running kernel
check for kernel-devel or kernel-source rpm
and if I know I have these specify the path using --kernel-source-path

[coopstah13]

refer to my first post, you have to install package build-essential using

apt-get install build-essential

[iwanabeguru]

As i know lenny offers the proprietary drivers from repositories.

the command:
aptitude search nvidia

will list nvidia related pacakges for you

According to this site
Debian -- Package Search Results -- nvidia

you need install
nvidia-glx
nvidia-kernel-2.6-686 or nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 for 64 bit debian

[DrakeMagi]

I had the same problem with a different card from nvidia.

you can try sgfxi or smxi
website smxi.org
works only with debian base distro. Not ubuntu as i understand
antix 8.0 or newer already has this installed.

1. Crtl Alt F1
2. login as root
3. Need to install it. This also run its
** cd usr/local/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/smxi && chmod +x smxi && smxi
** cd usr/local/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/sgfxi && chmod +x sgfxi && sgfxi