No luck with nvidia-x11-drv on Fedora Core 6.

[Matthias Saou]

Philippe A. wrote :

> I didn't rebuild the entire kernel. The only way I could do some progress
> was by installing the kernel source. But you were right about the kernel
> version. I have installed the 686 package. Now the driver installs
> correctly. That's pretty sweet stuff.
> 
> I'm having other sorts of problems though. When I enable desktop effects,
> I'm getting the following messages:
> 
> compiz: /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.so.1: no version information available
> (required by /usr/lib/tls/libGL.so.1)
> compiz: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/nvidia/libGLcore.so.1: undefined
> symbol: _nv000037gl
> 
> I see the same messages when running glxgears or glxinfo. That's worrying!
> 
> Strangely, I can see in Xorg.0.log that GLX is found and loaded:
> 
> (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so
> (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
>         compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.9626
>         Module class: X.Org Server Extension
>         ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1
> 
> Do you have any idea how GLX got broken and how to fix it?

Hmmm, you might want to try :

/etc/cron.daily/prelink
rpm -Va

And see if anything that shouldn't have got modified by your previous
changes...

Matthias

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