GLX does not work

dhewton · Guru Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 461 Location: Canada

Hi guys,

Just rebuilt my system with 2005.0 and I cannot get my Dell notebooks glx to work. I have uncommented the "load glx" line, I have installed nvidia-glx, I have opengl-update nvidia'd, but I still get the following message:

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Dan
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DannyBoy

The New Guy · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject:

Did you emerge the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx while X was running?

Also, have you tried running "env-update" and/or "modules-update" to see if it helps?
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deadlink · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 4

Maybe I'm wrong but if you're using composite try to add:
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" do your xorg.conf file
This problem is described here:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency
Anyway, you can simply remove Composite from your config file.