OpenGL vendor string: ATI on RHEL with Qaudro FX3450???

[flakrat]

Howdy, we have a Dell Precission 690 with an nVidia Quadro FX3450 video card.

I didn't install this system but I've been tasked with getting a graphics app called FieldView Advanced Tech Viewer running on the system. ATViewer has the following requirements that, according to glxinfo, the system doesn't yet meet:
* GL_ARB_fragment_program
* GL_ARB_vertex_program
* OPENGL driver must be version 1.3 or greater
* When running using LINUX, Direct Rendering must be set to ON.

So, I figured I had better install the latest nVidia vid driver.

The OS is RHEL 4 WS update 4 and is running 64bit with kernel:
2.6.9-5.ELsmp

I installed the 9755 nvidia driver using:
# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755-pkg2.run

When I run the command:
# glxinfo
It reports:
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON X600 x86/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (2.0.5077 WinXP Release)

Am I missing something or is glxinfo just messed up? Doesn't OpenGL get installed with the nVidia drivers, or is this a completely separate installation?

Also, I still don't see these two in the output: GL_ARB_fragment_program and
GL_ARB_vertex_program

Here's the full output of glxinfo
=====================================
name of display: localhost:10.0
display: localhost:10 screen: 0
direct rendering: No
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe, GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_NV_video_out, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON X600 x86/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (2.0.5077 WinXP Release)
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_depth_texture,
GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite, GL_ARB_shadow,
GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map,
GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,
GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra,
GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate, GL_EXT_blend_minmax,
GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_object,
GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_lod
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 2 32 8 16 16 16 16 708456755 993013821 None
0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 2 32 8 16 16 16 16 774519349 859516976 None
0x25 8 pc 0 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 2 32 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None
0x26 8 pc 0 0 0 c y . 0 0 0 0 2 32 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None

[xbobmx]

Originally Posted by flakrat

name of display: localhost:10.0
display: localhost:10 screen: 0

This suggests that you're "ssh"ed into the machine and have X forwarding enabled (ssh uses display 10 as the default for forwarding). Try setting the DISPLAY environment variable to ":0", i.e.:

export DISPLAY=:0

(if you're using bash), and running glxinfo again.

[flakrat]

Dang, It never dawned on me that glxinfo was pulling that information form my local system.

You were correct. I ended up hiking over to the machine and running the command, glxinfo looks a heck of a lot different (all of the expected options and then some) and OpenGL 2.x rather than 1.2.

Thanks,

Mike