The problem was that the old Nvidia driver package was incompatible with RedHat9.0. It even made it impossible to use the XFree86 nv driver that came bundled in the RedHat distro. So, the solution was:
rpm --erase NVIDIA_kernel
rpm --erase NVIDIA_GLX.
This cleaned out all the old Nvidia gunk on my system which was causing some kind of interference.
After doing this, OpenGL worked fine (glxgears, glxinfo, etc) without having to reinstall any other software.
Unfortunately, the XFree86 nv driver does not do 3D acceleration, so I will have to wait for Nvidia to come out with a proprietary solution for the 2.4.20-8 linux kernel (which comes with RH9.0).
Sean Dettrick.
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From: "sean dettrick" <sdettrick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [XFree86] glxinfo segmentation fault on NVidia, Athlon, RedHat9.0 system
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:36:53 +0000
Hi,
I just upgraded my OS from RedHat7.2 to RedHat9.0, with the result that I can no longer run my usual OpenGL applications, in particular, IDL (Interactive Data Language). Before the OS "upgrade" I had no trouble at all.
Even glxinfo and glxgears crash from the beginning, so I suspect there's a fundamental library problem:
sean:transport> glxinfo
Segmentation fault
sean:transport>
My uname -a is:
sean:transport> uname -a
Linux sean 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13 17:18:24 EST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
The RedHat upgrade gave me XFree86 4.3.0-2 via the rpm's: XFree86-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-libs-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm
My video card is an NVidia GeForce 3 Ti 200. The latest driver from nvidia.com won't compile on RedHat9.0, probably due to the new c libraries, so I am trying to use the inbuilt XFree86 driver. My
/etc/X11/XF86Config file is attached, as is my /etc/ld.so.conf file.
I would *greatly* appreciate any help. 3D graphics would be fine, but I would be very happy right now just to have my basic functionality back, i.e. glxinfo, IDL, etc working.
I should say that, via Gnome, I have a window manager running on the new OS (had some unresolved trouble with KDE).
Thanks very much in advance,
Sean Dettrick
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