GLX direct rendering?!

[Shifty]

I installed my nvidia driver but I can´t get my GLX direct rendering enabled. Can someone please help me out?

[bigtomrodney]

Is the driver being fully used? I know there is an issue where if it isn't listed in /etc/modules.preload it won't be seen. I was working happily using my nVidia driver but never appended that entry - consequently I did not see full rendering , and a lot of XScreensavers wouldn't work.

Just throw in the value nvidia and see how you get on. Run the glxgears command to see if it works.

[selimb]

Please see this howto:
- http://forum.pcastuces.com/sujet.asp?SUJET_ID=161109
selimb

[Shifty]

It says the new kernels have the file ¨modprobe.preload¨ so I just added a line ¨nvidia¨ to that file. I will see if it works and let you know.

[Shifty]

I edited my file, and still I have no direct GLX rendering?! My nvidia driver loads, it is just the GLX direct rendering.

[Flatline]

So the driver shows up when you run lsmod and you still have no glx? Did you edit the "Device" section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file so that the driver listed is nvidia and not nv?

[Shifty]

Yes I did that. I don´t know if it has something to do with the updates I downloaded because now I can´t install the new nvidia drivers. Everything with the installation goes fine until the ¨build kernel module¨ is almost complete then it throws the following error: ¨Unable to load the kernel module ´nvidia.ko´. This is most likely because the kernel module was built using the wrong kernel source files. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel . . . . If you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the ´--kernel-source-path´ commandline option.

I checked and I have the kernel source code installed. In point2play of cedega when I run the system test is says ¨Open GL Direct Rendering - Not available¨. Also in my nvidia settings utility it says ¨Direct rendering - no¨.