Linux Screensaver Issue
16 Apr 2006 3:50:08 UTC
Topic 191087
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Since the time that I updated my graphics driver so that I could get accelerated video on my newly built Slackware 10.2 system, the "Show Graphics" button has failed to enable. It worked prior to installing the NVIDIA driver package, but now I get this error in my stderr:
5.2.13
2006-04-14 20:33:07.9900 [normal]: Start of BOINC application 'albert_4.40_i686-pc-linux-gnu'.
dlopen() failed: libnvidia-tls.so.1: cannot handle TLS data
No graphics.
2006-04-14 20:33:07.9927 [CRITICAL]: graphics_lib_handle NULL: running without graphics
2006-04-14 20:33:07.9929 [normal]: Started search at lalDebugLevel = 0
2006-04-14 20:33:09.0319 [normal]: Checkpoint-file 'Fstat.out.ckp' not found.
2006-04-14 20:33:09.0322 [normal]: No usable checkpoint found, starting from beginning.
Detected CPU type 0
2006-04-14 20:49:34.6482 [normal]: Fstat file reached MaxFileSizeKB ==> compactifying ... done.
2006-04-15 06:15:23.0178 [normal]: Search finished successfully.
I run Linux 2.4.31 with X11 using KDE 3.4.2. The NVIDIA driver version is 1.5.6 NVIDIA 87.56. The graphics adapter is an NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/MX400. It would appear that a library issue has appeared, but I'm unclear on how to go about resolving it. Advice/assistance/belittling of a Linux newbie is appreciated.
Linux Screensaver Issue
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Did you try other Open GL applications?
You must run nvidia-xconfig or edit X-config file manually.
HTH
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
RE: Did you try other Open
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I did try glxgears, which showed a tremendous improvement in fps from the previous nonaccelerated run. I also ran nvidia-xconfig, but I think that the installation ran that the first time as well. Anyway, there was no change in the behavior of the graphics, and the button wasn't enabled. I ran dmesg and found these entries, which may or may not be helpful in any way:
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8756 Wed Mar 29 14:26:26 PST 2006
i2c-core.o: i2c core module version 2.6.1 (20010830)
NVRM: Your Linux 2.4 kernel was configured to include modular
NVRM: support for the Linux/i2c infrastructure, but the NVIDIA
NVRM: Linux graphics driver was unable to locate and load the
NVRM: i2c-core.o kernel module.
NVRM:
NVRM: If you wish to take advantage of the NVIDIA driver's i2c
NVRM: support feature, please make sure the Linux/i2c kernel
NVRM: modules are installed correctly.
RE: RE: Did you try other
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Hm, this only looks like a warning to me. Why not post it on the NVIDIA Linux Forum?
Sorry, no good ideas ATM.
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
RE: Hm, this only looks
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Thanks for your time, though. I'll try the NVIDIA forum and see what they come up with. If they have any answers, I'll post them here as well in case anyone else runs into this in the future.
One other thing I should
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One other thing I should probably note, the GL screensavers run just fine, along with glxgears, so I'm not sure that I have an overall graphics issue, but something specific to Einstein's use of graphics.
G**gle turned this
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G**gle turned this up.
HTH
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
RE: G**gle turned this
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I ran a search on my hard drive, and didn't find any libnvidia anything. Should this not have been included in the installation package I installed?
Try an older
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Try an older version?
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
RE: Linux Screensaver Issue
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Mikie Tim T, you need to go
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Mikie Tim T, you need to go to the nvidia web site and download the newest driver and run it. Nvidia requires the nvidia module to be recompiled everytime the kernel is changed.