opengl shaders not supported

[scrarfussi]

i have a nvidia fx 5200 i know its old but it serves the purpose everything works fine but when i try run a 3d earthmodel one of the widgets in kde4 i get this error opengl shaders not supported is thre a package i need or something need be tweaked thanx

[scrarfussi]

my xorg.conf file

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (buildmeister@builder63) Thu Jun 5 00:10:21 PDT 2008

# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2008-07-18T23:41:53+0200.
#
# Version: 8.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2005
# Contact: SaX-User list <https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/sax-users>
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (8.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
Screen "Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "type1"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "freetype"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
Option "ZapWarning" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Driver "kbd"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoftpro"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
ModeLine "1280x1024" 108 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
VendorName "LG ELECTRONICS"
ModelName "FLATRON 775FT"
UseModes "Modes[0]"
DisplaySize 315 230
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
Option "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
Option "DPMS"
Option "PreferredMode" "1024x768"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVidia"
BoardName "GeForce FX 5200 DH"
Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Device "Device[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "1024x600" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

[waterhead]

The shaders are part of OpenGL. I'm not aware of any way to download and install it, so it must be part of the Xserver or the nVidia driver.

This may be something that you can enable through the nvidia-settings control panel.

Here's some info:
OpenGL Shading Language

Update: It appears that nVidia uses Cg shaders. LibCG is something that my Fedora box has listed as a installable package. Maybe SuSE has something similar.

[scrarfussi]

Thanx will look into it when i'm in front o pc

[waterhead]

Are you using the nVidia driver provided by the distro, or the one downloaded from nVidia? I think that you need the one from nVidia.

[scrarfussi]

I'm sure its from nvidia cause i got their repo's enabled

[waterhead]

To get the best nVidia driver, you usually have to download the binary from the nVidia web site. I'm not aware of any other way to get it. Usually the drivers obtained any other way are inferior to the binary version.

I could be wrong, and things may have changed, but I would still try the binary driver first.

[scrarfussi]

There are two methods
Nvidia Installer HOWTO for SUSE LINUX users
I have an older binary the one i was using in 10.3 but when i try and build it manually it fails to build tells me to check var log nvidia something like that so had to use yast to get the driver i think it has something to do with the pae kernel i'm using

[waterhead]

Those instructions seem fairly straightforward. To compile the nVidia module yourself, just make sure that you have first installed the kernel sources, the "make" and "gcc" applications.

It says to use the 173.14.09 driver. But when I manually download the driver, and tell it that it is for a FX 5 series card, it gives me the 173.14.05 driver. This may not be important, but who knows?

Before changing drivers, maybe first try tweaking the settings. In the nvidia-settings control panel, click on the OpenGL section and enable SyncToVBlank. If that doesn't help, try some options in the xorg.conf file. I am using the FX5200 in a Fedora 8 box, as a MythTV Frontend to watch HDTV broadcasts. Here are the options that I needed to do this, and some things that I found that are different :

<snip>
Section "ServerFlags"
    Option        "AIGLX" "on"
    Option        "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

<snip>

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName   "GeForce FX 5200"
    Option        "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option        "RenderAccel" "True"
    Option      "NVAGP" "1"
    Option      "UseEvents" "True"
    Option        "ConnectMonitor" "DFP"
    Option        "NoLogo" "0"
    Option      "XvmcUsesTextures" "False"
EndSection

<snip>

Section "Extensions"
    Option        "Composite" "Enabled"
EndSection

For more complete information on options, check out this file:
Appendix B. X Config Options

Also, have you enabled XvMC? I don't know if it is of any use in this case, because the application has to call for it. The best explanation I found for enabling it comes from the MythTV Wiki:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php...hipset_library

You simply create a file in the X11 directory that points to the proper XvMC library.

I hope this info is of some help.

EDIT: I did notice that this could be a KDE4 error. You may need to use the older KDE3.5 desktop.

[scrarfussi]

You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver. Please edit your X configuration file (just run `nvidia-xconfig` as root), and restart the X server.


this is what i get when i try run the nvidia -xconfig utility