OopenGL

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On 2/14/07, email.listen at googlemail.com <email.listen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 15. February 2007 00:04:28 John Dangler wrote:
> > Does anyone here know how to get opengl installed in 6.10?
> > (I have mysql workbench installed, but it doesn't run because it needs
> > this).
> > I do have nvidia-glx installed, but apparently there's something more to
> > opengl than just that...
>
> For nvidia follow the documentation and check your xorg.conf:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
>
> Following the steps mentioned in the documentation openGL should work as
> expected. You also may have a look to the chapter "Troubleshooting".
>
>
> I would think that there is a block missing in your xorg.conf:
> ---8<----
>  Section "Extensions"
>          Option  "Composite" "Disable"
>  EndSection
> ---8<---
>

If you have everything else installed run:

sudo nvidia-glx-config enable

That's it. no need to tinker with your xorg.conf except special circumstances.