Re: [LUG] Slow 3D acceleration with NVidia Vanta T64?

[Keith Abraham <keith.abraham@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 29 September 2002 10:49 pm, David Johnson wrote:
> Keith Abraham wrote:
>  >Downloaded NVidia drivers for my NVidia graphics card via
>  >SuSE Online Update and used Sax2 to turn on 3D.
>  >
>  >But running Gears gives approx 536 fps which IMHO seems
>  >somewhat slow.
>  >
>  >Both NVidia kernal and Nvidia glx load and I get the
>  >NVidia flash.
>  >
>  >XF86config looks OK (see attachment) and X log shows nothing
>  >un-to-ward except for some continuing Cryillic font errors.
>  >
>  >Any ideas anyone?
>  >
>  >Keith
>
> I find that Sax2 and YaST do more harm than good when trying to get
> these drivers working, so I don't bother with either.
> The first thing I would suggest, is that you go to nvidia.co.uk and grab
> the latest drivers from there. I've never used the ones from SuSE YOU,
> but I can say for sure that the ones from Nvidia work (they may also be
> newer too).
>
> If you install them and have the same problems, it could be a problem
> with symbolic links which I frequently have in SuSE 8.0.
>
> If you do "ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.so*" you SHOULD get the following:
>
> david@xx:~> ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.so*
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           36 Sep 24 15:55
> /usr/lib/libGL.so -> /usr/lib/GL/libGL.so.1.0.3123.nv_glx
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           27 Sep 27 16:48
> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> GL/libGL.so.1.0.3123.nv_glx
> david@xx:~>
>
> Both the libGL.so and libGL.so.1 files should be pointing to the Nvidia
> libGL.so.xxxxx in the /usr/lib/GL/ directory.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> David.

Cheers David

Doing  ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.so* produces only:

lrwxrwxrwx           1 root         root                27 Sep 27 15:13 
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
-> GL/libGL.so.1.0.3123.nv_glx

So (apart from the permissions) it looks as if the libGL.so symlink
is missing.
Now I'm not too sure about symbolic links. Do I do:

ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so  /usr/libGL/libGL.so.1.0.3123.nv_glx

to create the link?

Keith
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