[RESOLVED] GeForce 5200FX on RedHat 9.3 glx problem

[mschievano]

hello,
i use a red hat 9.3 system patched to the last (...) release of software with a 5200FX video card.

The problem is that the card (the system?) wont load the GLX module.

Some code:

lspci -v
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: 
Unknown device 0322 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11
Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at e7fe0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0

bash-2.05b# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       8x 4x
Registers:       0x1f000e1b:0x1f000302

bash-2.05b# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status:          Enabled
Driver:          NVIDIA
AGP Rate:        8x
Fast Writes:     Disabled
SBA:             Enabled

bash-2.05b# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge
Host Bridge:     VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       8x 4x
Registers:       0x1f000a1b:0x1f000b02

bash-2.05b# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0
Model:           GeForce FX 5200
IRQ:             11
Video BIOS:      04.34.20.42.00
Card Type:       AGP

#XF86config.conf
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "GeForce 5200"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    VideoRam    131072
    Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option      "DPMS" "on"
    Option "EnablePageFlip" "true"
    Option "AGPFastwrite" "true
    Option "EnableDepthMoves" "true"
    Option "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option "NvAGP" "2"
    Option "NoLogo" "true"
    Option "HWCursor" "true"
    Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT" 
EndSection

i have disabled the load glx to go into graphics login.
If i leave load glx, it says:

failed to load module glx

other useful things:

bash-2.05b# uname -a
Linux ainex 2.4.20-43_41.rh9.at #1 Sun May 22 02:24:49 EDT 
2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

i've installed this:

bash-2.05b# apt-cache search nvidia-graphics7667
nvidia-graphics7667 - NVIDIA Linux Display Driver.
nvidia-graphics7667-kmdl-2.4.20-43_41.rh9.at - Kernel module
 for NVIDIA graphics architecture support.
nvidia-graphics7667-libs - Libraries for nvidia-graphics 
chips.

bash-2.05b#  dmesg |grep agp
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT400 chipset
agpgart: unable to determine aperture size.
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT400 chipset
agpgart: unable to determine aperture size.
....

bash-2.05b# locate glx
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include/GL/glx.h
/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/include/GL/glxext.h
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.7676
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
/usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears
/usr/X11R6/bin/glxinfo
/usr/X11R6/man/man1/glxgears.1x.gz
/usr/X11R6/man/man1/glxinfo.1x.gz
/usr/include/GL/glx.h
/usr/include/GL/glxext.h
/mnt/hdb2/games_linux/Loki_Demos/demos/heretic2_demo/ref_glx.so
/mnt/hdb2/games_linux/Nexuiz/nexuiz-linux-x86-glx
/mnt/hdb2/games_linux/Nexuiz/nexuiz-linux-x86_64-glx

[Thunderbird]

Remove the file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a, second also remove the VideoRam option from your config file. Further those depthmove, pageflip and fastwrites lines can be removed from the config too as those options don't exist for the nvidia driver.

[mschievano]

Originally Posted by Thunderbird

Remove the file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a, second also remove the VideoRam option from your config file. Further those depthmove, pageflip and fastwrites lines can be removed from the config too as those options don't exist for the nvidia driver.

i find the error with kpackage:
my XF86config was missing of this:

ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia" 
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions" 
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

in section file.


Why you say it doesn't exist? On every example & forum I've read this configuraztion for nvidia