Help Installing nVidia Drivers for nvidia-legacy and Beryl

[worazi12]

I'm attempting to add the Beryl interface to Kubuntu 6.10 and I'm having a few problems. First, I should probably say that I'm a complete newbie, so I may be screwing this up all together. In order to use the Beryl interface I need to have OpenGL and 3d Video Acceleration enabled. Since it's not already enabled on nVidia drivers, I went to install the drivers, after which I went to enable 3d acceleration:


william@william-desktop:~$ sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

Error: your X configuration has been altered.
This script cannot proceed automatically. If you believe that this
not correct, you can update the md5sum entry executing the following
command:
md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf | sudo tee /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum
otherwise edit manually /etc/X11/xorg.conf to change the Driver section
from nv to nvidia.

william@william-desktop:~$ glxinfo | grep rendering
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
william@william-desktop:~$

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, because it seems that 3d Acceleration is still not enabled. Any help will be greatful, remember I'm a newbie, so explain it fully if possible, or if you have another method for installing Beryl on kubuntu.

[dibl]

Re: Help Installing nVidia Drivers for nvidia-legacy and Beryl

Yikes! Which Nvidia card do you have? After you installed nvidia-glx, did you issue the command "sudo nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals --composite" ?

For 6.10, the world's easiest approach is to download and run the "Envy" script installer from this site:

http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

There is one caveat -- once you install the Nvidia proprietary driver (as opposed to nvidia-glx from the repositories), each time there is a kernel upgrade, it will blow away your driver installation and boot you to a blinking text login. The good news is that all you have to do is login and then type "envy" -- if you can manage that you'll always be back to GUI in short order.

If you'd rather stick with nvidia-glx, run a search on "nvidia driver" on this forum and Ubuntu Forums -- there are only about a zillion threads on how to configure xorg.conf.

Hope this helps!

[totoymola]

Re: Help Installing nVidia Drivers for nvidia-legacy and Beryl

Hmm.. Nice tip. I'll try that.