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Nvidia driver won't work with GLX in Xorg (Gentoo)
Hullo there. I've been trying to install the nvidia driver for my GeForce 6600gt. I can get it using 'nvidia' rather than 'nv', but for some reason, if I try to enable GLX in /etc/xorg.conf, I get the nvidia logo breifly, but then the X server crashes straight away. I can give you the last part of /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
Code:
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) Initializing extension GLX
*** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
*** be the reason for the server aborting.
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.X.Org
for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
" for additional information.
I tried to install the nvidia drivers using nvidia's self-extracting installing thingy before I found out how Gentoo recommend you do it, so I may have messed some stuff up there.
But does anybody know what might be wrong, or even better, how to fix it?
At the moment I'm having to comment out the GLX line in my /etc/X11/.xorg.conf file...
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