3D acceleration

[thor4linux]

Ok guys, I’m at the end of my rope here. I’ve been trying to get 3D acceleration to work with my nvidia card and the nvidia drivers. I’ve reinstalled suse and excluded mesa, and every other 3D library I was asked about. I then installed the Nvidia drivers from source and set up my XF86config file so that it uses my NvidiaGLX libraries. 2D looks very sharp and clear, 3D won’t run. The two things I’ve tried are the OpenGL screensavers and tuxracer. They give me error messages that say they can’t find the LibGLut.1.so, or something, same error for both, but I’m not so sure of the name. I’m at work and can’t remember exactly. Now do I need the Glut library even when I have the NvidiaGLX installed? I’ve tried looking on the net and in suse’s help pages and I can’t find anything that talks about this. My understanding was that the Nvidia drivers would work for everything and I would not need any other GFX libraries. Can anyone point me in the right direction for information? I would like to understand how the GFX libraries work, and how to set up my Nvidia card.

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[pbharris]

here is my XF86Config-4 file, it works very weel for (no lockups, looks good, etc.). if you ahve any questions let me know. i am using the NV dirvers from nvidia 1.0something.
http://members.telocity.com/~cph013/XF86Config-4

i assume you got both the kernel and GLX tarballs and installed both. for me the GLX package removed the offending GL libs from other installers.

[Morph]

I have the same problem with Mandrake 8.0 with the same card.

I have done the rpm'ing and changing the xfconfig-4 file .. I really am sick of it.

What else could it be? mesa? how would I find if mesa is installed and how woudl I get rid of it if it was? :( :confused: :(

[Avatar]

Look in the Articles section at www.evil3d.net (http://www.evil3d.net) and take a look at the HOWTOs for both SuSE and Mandrake 8 and see if those help out.

[pbharris]

i did a ls -l /usr/lib| grep GL any file which was part of a OpenGL package was moved to a tempory place. I think i also did this for /usr/X11R6/lib

[Xsecrets]

I know that #nvidia on irc.openprojets.net used to have a little script you could dcc down and run to check that everything is installed properly and it always helped me get my nvidia drivers straight and working this was a couple of versions ago but I'm sure they keep it updated so you might want to check there.

[thor4linux]

Morph, I had a hell of a time getting the drivers to work at the start, i tried the RPM's, but they suck. so i instaled from source. X would freeze and lock the machine until i peiced together a XF86 config file from the sample file that comes with the drivers. then the 2D would work and i tried to get 3D up and working and that leaves me here. RPM's have a data base that tells you what is installed on you system if it was installed with RPM. Try to find out how to access that data base and then remove mesa. I have a paralel posta at www.linuxjunior.org (http://www.linuxjunior.org) on the same subject. the people ther say i might need some of the mesa stuff for 3d, you can check over there and see what comes of it. and i'll try to keep you posted here. it took me 4 trys to get the Nvidia drivers to work so i coulds start x. it felt really good to get it done. now i just need to get 3D working.

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[Xsecrets]

the script I mentioned erlier does several things.

1 it goes through and makes sure you have the kernel and libs installed

2 it checks your xf86config file to make sure you are loading glx

3 it checks to make sure you don't have any conflicting libs installed.

I highly recommend it. It tells you how to correct each problem if it encounters it.

[thor4linux]

X, How do i get to irc.openprojects.net. i dodn't know what IRC is and i always hear that alot of newbies get crap in the irc chanels. can you tell me how to get there?
do i need a program or can i get there with a browser?

[ 16 June 2001: Message edited by: thor4linux ]

[Molecule Man]

Have you tried the MDK RPM from nvidia?

[Roy Smith]

some problems seem to be alleviated by booting into terminal mode - rather than directly into X - and then going into X by using "startx".

[RecoilUK]

Hi guys

Theres a command u need to run

Log in as user root and type the following

ln -s libGL.so.1 libGL.so

It sets up a sym link or something

Hope it works

Recoil

[Xsecrets]

I highly recommend not doing what the last message said unless you know what you are doing. It didn't even say anything about directories or anything and it will jsut clutter up your system if you run that command in the wrong dir.

To get on irc you need a irc client like xchat if your in Xwindows or *****x for command line. there are others those are just examples.

Yes some of the channels are very rude to newbies but #nvidia is pretty good about helping people and you don't really even need to talk to anyone when you log onto the channel you get a message telling you how to list the programs and download the ones you want. It is all handled by a bot through dcc.

[Morph]

would it be possible someon posts a link to a http addy for that script that woill check everything is working ok?

Cheers folks

BTW, I did go to the evil 3d site and it still didnt have a single flaming effect on my system.. I followed everything WORD FOR WORD in that artcile and still nothing.

However, I had the source file for the 0.9 kernel drivers already installed (or was oit the Opengl?)... i typped make uninstall but 'no targets were found' so I just deleted the whole directory .. I cannot help bu thtink I still had some libraries floating around the system when I tried startin gover and following the evil3d article ... and maybe thats whY it produced a null result :confused:

[Avatar]

Okay, for you folks gettting the "libGLU.so not found" message. This is not because of the NVIDIA drivers. This is because MESA is not installed on your system. Glut is required by Tux Racer. I suggest that you install it from your respective distro CD, or download and install it. Then install you NVIDIA drivers. Tux Racer should fire up after that.

[Xsecrets]

one note if you do install mesa from your distro it will most likely overwrite your nvidia gl drivers and you will have to reinstall them. Just a word of warning.