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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7.
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:47:11
Message-Id: hpqki2$6l4$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server 1.7. by Dale
1 On 04/10/2010 11:19 AM, Dale wrote:
2 > walt wrote:
3 >> On 04/09/2010 10:41 PM, Dale wrote:> I searched the logs in /var/log and found this:
4 >>>
5 >>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
6 >>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
7 >>> (EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If
8 >>
9 >> #eselect opengl list
10 >> Available OpenGL implementations:
11 >> [1] nvidia * <------ Are you using this one?
12 >> [2] xorg-x11
13 >>
14 >>
15 >>
16 >
17 > Yep. I saw it switch to that during the emerge but I typed it in to make sure. I downgraded back to the old versions and things are working now. I did have to recompile all the input stuff again but at least it works.
18 >
19 > According to the forums, this is a known problem since xorg is updated but apparently nvidia is not yet.
20
21 Yes, I see now. It works for me because I have the ~ version of the nvidia driver
22 unmasked. I run the most recent kernel from Linus and the stable driver won't compile
23 against his newer kernels.

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