Any tips on getting glx going on a tnt2?

[ka9qlq]

I'm trying to get the Nvidia legacy drivers to use glx but even though the driver manager shows the proprietary drivers loaded but glxgears wont run. Here's some of my xorg.conf

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro]"
Monitor "E15TG"
Defaultdepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1024 768
Modes "800x600@60" "1024x768@60" "800x600@56" "640x480@60"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "v4l"
EndSection

[dibl]

Re: Any tips on getting glx going on a tnt2?

I'm not totally proficient with the older Nvidia drivers, but you won't hurt anything if you open a Konsole window and enter:

sudo nvidia-xonfig --add-argb-glx-visuals --composite

If you're lucky, it will overwrite your xorg.conf file with the additional capabilities to run glx. After you restart the xserver (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace if the script doesn't do it for you), you can test it by trying

glxgears

[ka9qlq]

Re: Any tips on getting glx going on a tnt2?

Well it wasn't quite that easy I had to install nvidia-xconfig then run

sudo nvidia-xconfig --nvagp=3
sudo nvidia-xconfig --allow-glx-with-composite

And now I'm running at a whopping 311 fps on glxgears so I'm happy, thank you

Now if I can find out why libXaw3d.so.8 vanished.........

Nice hat

[dibl]

Re: Any tips on getting glx going on a tnt2?

And now I'm running at a whopping 311 fps on glxgears so I'm happy, thank you

Cool -- glad to hear you got it running!

Nice hat

Thanks!

[ka9qlq]

Re: Any tips on getting glx going on a tnt2?

Hay you wouldn't know how I could get libXaw3d.so.8 back would you?