X.org stalls - problems with NVIDIA graphics driver?

[Thomas Sperre]

Mandag 17 juli 2006 06:28, skrev Glenn Enright:

> One thing I would suggest you check is that you have enabled the nvidia
> version of glx. The nvidia module works ok with the standard X glx driver,
> but you lose many features an performance, which seems to what you are
> experiencing.
>
> To check this look for a file in you home directory called
> .xsession_errors. You can run grep on this to find any references to GLX
> with the following command;
> 	grep -i glx .xsession_errors

Thanks for the response, Glenn. I have tried looking at this :

Found file called .xsession-errors (dash not underscore)
it was rather long, but grepping as suggested provided no clue, empty return. 
I'll have to read through it manually but that will take some time, not 
possible until later today i think.


> This should offer you some clues.
> To make sure that nvidia-glx is installed run;
> 	sudo apt-get nvidia-glx
> To enable the driver, run
> 	sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

thomas at zirakzagil:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx
Leser pakkelister ... Ferdig (english:packages)
Skaper oversikt over avhengighetsforhold ... Ferdig (english:dependencies)
nvidia-glx er allerede nyeste versjon. (english:is up to date)
0 oppgraderte, 0 nylig installerte, 0 å fjerne og 2 ikke oppgradert.
thomas at zirakzagil:~$ 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.

Question: as you can see in my original post, if all this enable script does 
is alter my x.org conf "Driver" section from nv to nvidia, that should be 
ok - as mine really says "nvidia". Can this issue be eliminated from the list 
of potential troublemakers? 

-- 
Thomas Sperre
thcsp at online.no
(+47)93448977