Bug 12623

Summary:	nvidia driver causes GLX issues when present
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	anssi.hannula, tmb
Version:	4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	nvidia	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Doug Laidlaw 2014-02-06 02:12:36 CET

(Split from Bug 12108.)

Having nvidia driver present on the system, even though not the active driver, causes message:

"No GLX extension on display 0:0"

and consequent inability to display graphics.  In xscreensaver, the only hack that still works is the default Mageia one.  Even 2D hacks won't start.

Totally removing 

dkms-nvidia-current
nvidia-current kernel (and the -latest file)
nvidia-current-doc
x11-driver-video-nvidia-current

fixes the problem.

Haven't tested removing those one at a time.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Doug Laidlaw 2014-02-12 23:21:24 CET

This particular issue seems fixed by the latest nvidia download in Cauldron, although it still won't work as a driver.

Manuel Hiebel 2014-02-16 18:07:47 CET

CC: (none) => anssi.hannula, tmb

Comment 2 Doug Laidlaw 2014-07-02 18:31:15 CEST

I installed Mga4 64-bit, and had no problems.

For other reasons, I reverted to 32-bit.

The GLX error doesn't show, but xscreensaver still fails.

Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2015-09-21 13:18:06 CEST

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Comment 4 Doug Laidlaw 2015-09-21 13:25:30 CEST

Seems to be history.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED