nVidia "OpenGL/GLX Information" crashes X

[snarfer]

With nVidia 100.14.19 on MacBook Pro 17 Hi-Res, Fedora 7 install, X server quits immediately if I do as follows:

(1) Start Applications - NVIDIA X Server Settings

(2) Click on OpenGL/GLX Settings

setting kernel option pci=nommconf does not make any difference.

Bug report split due to file size limit on uploads

[Thunderbird]

Most likely other programs like glxinfo are crashing too. The problem is:
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3

X is loading its own libglx.so instead of nvidia's this is causing your troubles. Reinstalling the nvidia drivers should fix it.

[snarfer]

Thanks so much for the speedy reply!

In fact your observation led me to the solution, which is to enter the following commands:

cd /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/
sudo mv libglx.so libglx.so.bak
sudo ln -s libglx.so.100.14.19 libglx.so

Everything seems to be working fine now.

[blk]

had the same thing after each debian Xorg update (i posted it somewhere here).. resetting the symlink is the easiest solution