On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:11 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote: > Sjoerd Mullender wrote: > > On 2008-01-10 22:14, Chris Jones wrote: > >> > >>> This is hard to explain, but in a non-root terminal I put glxinfo > >>> | grep direct and my screen went blank, much like it does with > >>> google earth, and after a few seconds I had to reboot from init > >>> level 3! > >>> > >>> It appears glxinfo is not working right on my F8. > >> > >> Hate to tell you, but if running glxinfo causes your machine to drop > >> to init 3 (i.e. X dies) then your system is terminally unwell. This > >> is not normal. > >> > >> If I recall correctly you have installed the nvidia driver yourself, > >> using the nvidia installer ? I would suggest this is screwed up. > > > > I have seen this happen. The problem was, the nVidia GL library was > > overwritten by the system GL library causing a fatal (for X) > > incompatibility as soon as GL was touched by the X server (e.g. when > > running googleearth of glxinfo). This can happen when the Fedora GL > > library is upgraded or reinstalled after the nVidia driver was > > installed. This can happen when you use the nVidia installer, but not > > when you use a packaged RPM (I recommend freshrpms.net since it does > > not need to be updated when there is a kernel update). > > > Since A. I just got a new kernel in F7 as we write, and B. I can't > can't get anything from freshrpms.net because I do not know how to. C. > would a rpm there work on F7? > > Karl >From the freshrpms.net home page: "The easiest way to install freshrpms.net packages is to click here from within firefox, choose to open with Software Installer (the default) then go to Add/Remove Software from the main menu, where new applications will be available in the list." Doesn't get much easier than that. I'm a big fan of the DKMS nvidia module if you find you have to have the closed source driver. - Brian
