openGL crashes

[Niraj]

Hi Paul,

Let me recapitulate what happened:

1) I installed Beryl and few updates on my machine, before which
everything was working fine. My setup is:
Ubuntu (Edgy, 32-bit)
AMD Turion X2 (64 bit)
NVidia GeForce Go 6150
NVidia driver version 1.0-9746

2) openGL apps would crash the X server immediately. A black screen with a
blinking cursor would hang around for a while, after which the login
screen would come up.
   I am not sure whether it was Beryl or the updates that messed up the
system. I suspect it was Beryl, but if other people are facing the same
problem then it could be the updates. I do not know which updates were
installed.

3) I uninstalled Beryl, but the problem persisted.

4) I reinstalled MESA libraries, after which the apps started working.
They would run for more than 10 minutes though. I was playing around with
Blender which would crash unpredictably.

5) Steve Flynn suggested I look at the X log. In the log I found this
message:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     If you continue to encounter problems, Please try
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.

I reinstalled the NVIDIA drivers, and all's well now. I am still not sure
what had caused the problem.

Thanks,
Niraj

>
> On Sunday 08 April 2007 9:20:02 am Niraj wrote:
>> I semi-solved the problem by reinstalling MESA libraries, after which
openGL applications started to function. However, they'd crash
>> unpredictably after some use.
> OK, so what's happened.  Why is openGL causing system crashes recently? 
Has
> there been an up?date?
> Paul
>> After that I tried reinstalling the nVIDIA drivers, and now it all
works--no more crashes!
>> Thanks,
>> Niraj
>> > On 07/04/07, Niraj <blusynapse at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi again,
>> >>
>> >> I sent a mail earlier mentioning that Blender was crashing for me. I
then
>> >> figured out that the problem was common to all openGL applications.
Every
>> >> time a screensaver (or any openGL) application starts, the X servers
crashes, and I land up on the login screen.
>> >>
>> >> Like I mentioned, I ran the Update Manager yesterday, after which
>> this
>> >> problem has started to crop up. I also installed Beryl at the same
>> time
>> >> too, and subsequently removed it. The problem persists.
>> >>
>> >> Can someone tell me how I can find out the source of the problem?
>> >
>> > What's in your X log?
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