no gnome-shell with driver 280.13 on Fedora 15

[MartinKG]

Hi,

On my workstation I have a Geforce 210(GT218) with latest proprietary drivers (280.13).
It's not able to use gnome3-shell and reverts to fallback mode.

qvdpautest 0.5.1
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
NVIDIA GPU GeForce 210 (GT218) at PCI:6:0:0 (GPU-0)

VDPAU API version : 1
VDPAU implementation : NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 280.13 Wed Jul 27 17:15:20 PDT 2011

SURFACE GET BITS: 1039.77 M/s
SURFACE PUT BITS: 1077.51 M/s

MPEG DECODING (1920x1080): 71 frames/s
MPEG DECODING (1280x720): 142 frames/s
H264 DECODING (1920x1080): 65 frames/s
H264 DECODING (1280x720): 120 frames/s
VC1 DECODING (1440x1080): 83 frames/s
MPEG4 DECODING (1920x1080): 71 frames/s

MIXER WEAVE (1920x1080): 411 frames/s
MIXER BOB (1920x1080): 659 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL (1920x1080): 181 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL + IVTC (1920x1080): 119 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL + SKIP_CHROMA (1920x1080): 216 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL (1920x1080): 69 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + IVTC (1920x1080): 55 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + SKIP_CHROMA (1920x1080): 76 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL (720x576 video to 1920x1080 display): 248 fields/s
MIXER TEMPORAL_SPATIAL + HQSCALING (720x576 video to 1920x1080 display): 114 fields/s

MULTITHREADED MPEG DECODING (1920x1080): 69 frames/s
MULTITHREADED MIXER TEMPORAL (1920x1080): 138 fields/s


a grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log give me the following output:

[  5164.309] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
[  5164.309] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
[  5164.309] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.  If
[  5164.310] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     you continue to encounter problems, Please try
[  5164.310] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.

How can i run in the gnome3-shell with this card ?

[MartinKG]

Now, i searched and found a solution for me, don't know if it's the correct way but it runs.

first i add in the Section "Files" the following two lines, so that the X-Server picks up
the correct libglx.so. Without this change the one from
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so (xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.10.4-1.fc15.x86_64) was taken.

    ModulePath      "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"

and at last i moved th libglx.so from the X-Server away, so that it could not be taken.

mv /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.xorg

the Xorg.0.log files tells me now that the correct lib form /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia is taken.

[kwizart]

The original problem was because you already had a File section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf that override the one located in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-nvidia.conf

[MartinKG]

Originally Posted by kwizart

The original problem was because you already had a File section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf that override the one located in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-nvidia.conf

But how should look the File Section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
that the GLX Modus works, without moving
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so to /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.xorg. ?