On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:20, Katherine Holcomb wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:45, Michael Anthony Porter wrote: > > > none of the OpenGL screensavers work. All fail with the error "Xlib: extension > > > XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0" (to be clear, this error occurred with the Nvidia-installed > > > drivers as well as with the rpms). Nvidia explicitly states that dri should *not* > > > be loaded in XF86config and I did not do so for RH 9.0. Everything > > > worked fine under RH 9.0. What has changed? > > > > That's a common problem. Have you tried doing "rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-42"? The NVIDIA libGL.so files conflict with the default XFree86 ones, and if that RPM is installed, the default files are found instead of the NVidia provided ones. > > > Since two people recommended it, I removed this rpm and reinstalled the > kernel-module and nvidia-glx rpms. After restarting X, when I tried my > OpenGL screensavers (preview mode), instead of a black screen I got "No > Preview Available." So I removed Mesa-GLUT as well, reinstalled the > Nvidia rpms again, and restarted X, all of which made things even worse > because now I get "libglu.so not found." > > I can of course reinstall Mesa-GLUT, but something else is wrong with my > configuration. Any suggestions? > There was a different message http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg00723.html that said to just remove a couple files. I did that and now I don't receive that warning when running my xawtv. Maybe try that instead of removing Mesa altogether.
