Failed to load GLX after new hard drive
 

The following installation was working fine for me:

Freebsd 4.8
VGA JATON/GF2 MX400 32MB PCI RTL
Nvidia Driver patched and installed.
KDE 3.1

Then I had a hard drive crash. I run two hard drives: Drive two backs up drive one every 24 hours using an rsync routine. Normally, when drive one fails, I can just make drive two the master drive, tweek a few things and I am off and running. This time when I did this, KDE won't start (startx from command line.) It reports

"Failed to Load GLX"

Followed by some reports of missing libraries.

I'm not sure what to do to figure this out. My rsync routine does not copy /tmp directories, so if the NVIDIA driver is looking for a /tmp directory that is not there, that could be the problem.

Anyway, your ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I have not uploaded any log files. I would be happy to do that. However, if you would like to see a log, please give me some step by step instructions to generate it, or tell me where to find it. I am new at this stuff.

Thnx!

Re: Failed to load GLX after new hard drive
 

Why are you still running 4.8?

Re: Failed to load GLX after new hard drive
 

Long Story. Why, are you just curios?

Re: Failed to load GLX after new hard drive
 

4.8 isn't supported by the freebsd team anymore. 4.11 (the last 4.x release) will be EOL at the end of this month. So I'm kind of curious why you're still running such an old version :D

Re: Failed to load GLX after new hard drive
 

QUOTE=SirDice]4.8 isn't supported by the freebsd team anymore. 4.11 (the last 4.x release) will be EOL at the end of this month. So I'm kind of curious why you're still running such an old version :D[/quote]

I am a small business operator who maintains a web site and a series of office computers while serving customers, paying taxes, and doing all the other stuff that a business operator does. My FreeBSD machine is a development machine for my current web site. Much of my development time is now taken up with creating a completely new web site which will do away with the need for the FreeBSD development machine. Meanwhile, I would like to get the FreeBSD machine working again for use in the short term. I have better things to do with my time than upgrade to the latest bells and whistles if the old ones are working OK. In this case the old machine was working fine until the hard drive failure described. (nana2)

So, having said that, do you have any helpful suggestions?

Re: Failed to load GLX after new hard drive
 

You could just try to reinstall the nvidia-driver, I'm assuming you already tried that? Anything in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Or is that oldy still running XFree? Not sure when they've moved from XFree to Xorg.. Have a look at it's logfile. Missing module dir mentioned in there?

/tmp does contain some needed directories. .ICE-unix and .X11-unix both dirs should at least exist and have their sticky bit set.

Re: Failed to load GLX after new hard drive
 

Thanks so much for taking the time to give me your suggestions!

.X11-unix was there. I added .ICE-unix, but that did not change things.

Looks like I may have to punt. There seems to be more wrong than I thought.

S

Re: Failed to load GLX after new hard drive
 

Can you ssh to the box from your windows machine? If so, you could copy the files using winscp. I use it all the time in combination with putty.

Re: Failed to load GLX after new hard drive
 

Cool! Thanks for putting me on to winscp. :) I have attached the Xfree log file.
Thanks for sticking with me on this. Looking forward to your thoughts.

Re: Failed to load GLX after new hard drive
 

A few things I noticed..

(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.4365
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver

(II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-4365 Wed May 28 09:23:41 PDT 2003
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs

It does load the nvidia-driver, an old one but if it worked before it should still be ok.

Just before it fails to load GLX:
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failed to verify AGP usage

This makes me think it might be AGP related. Did you compile the nvidia-driver with or without freebsd_agp? Is AGP in your kernel? Is it loaded as a module? On 5.x and higher this is done in /boot/loader.conf. A line agp_load="YES" will load the freebsd AGP module. IIRC 4.x should work the same but I'm not sure if agp is build into the generic kernel of 4.x though.

Re: Failed to load GLX after new hard drive
 

Agreed.

Hmmm.... interesting thought. I checked the current kernel and the line

Device agp

is in it and not commented out. No other reference to agp though. I added the line agp_load="YES" to my /boot/loader.conf file and rebooted to see what would happen. Unfortunately, this did not change the problem or the XFree86.0.log file errors. I have extensive notes from when I installed the NVIDIA driver originally and there is no mention there of having to do anything about AGP. My video card is not an AGP card.

So, I remain stumped. My gut is telling me that the problem must be related to something that did not copy to the backup hard drive such as a file or directory. I have done this kind of hard drive switch in the past without this kind of problem, although I can't remember if I have done it since I installed this video card and driver.

I really appreciate your time and effort on my behalf. If anything else occurs to you, please let me know.

S

Re: Failed to load GLX after new hard drive
 

First, can you confirm that the nvidia kernel module is getting loaded?

Second, do you see any libglx* files in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions?