Your message dated Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:44:53 +0100
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and subject line Re: nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx: No GLX: "(EE) GLX is not supported
with the Composite extension"
has caused the Debian Bug report #464800,
regarding nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx: No GLX: "(EE) GLX is not supported with the
Composite extension"
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx
Version: 71.86.01-1
Severity: important
As shipped, 'nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx' is broken; running a GLX app
(e.g. 'glxgears') will fail with errors like:
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
...and '/var/log/Xorg.0.log shows:
(EE) GLX is not supported with the Composite extension
Adding the following to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' fixes it:
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection
...then restart 'X'. More information here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/restricted-manager/+bug/91064
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
...and here:
zgrep -A 37 -n "app-u"
/usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source/README.gz | tail -n 38 | less
Yet it isn't documented in 'nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx':
% grep -i composite `dlocate -L nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx` 2> /dev/null
Binary file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so matches
Binary file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.71.86.01 matches
Binary file /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.71.86.01 matches
Binary file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so matches
Suggested fixes:
1) An install script can check 'xorg.conf', and if necessary add the
needed config line.
2) Failing that, document the problem, and the above fix. Perhaps
with an installer that checks 'xorg.conf' then issues a warning
if necessary.
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii nvidia-kernel-lega 71.86.01-1+2.6.24-3 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Li
ii x11-common 1:7.3+10 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1 Xorg X server - core server
nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
This is an upstream problem in the ancient 71xx release series. It is unlikely
NVIDIA will fix this.
Anyway, I'm closing this report now because the legacy-71xx driver is not
included in the current stable release (lenny) and will be no longer
compatible with the Xorg in the coming release (squeeze).
If you still have hardware only works with the 71xx legacy release from
NVIDIA, you should consider switching to the free drivers "nouveau" or "nv".
Andreas
On Saturday, 9. February 2008 03:09:05 A. Costa wrote:
> Package: nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx
> Version: 71.86.01-1
>
> As shipped, 'nvidia-glx-legacy-71xx' is broken; running a GLX app
> (e.g. 'glxgears') will fail with errors like:
>
> Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
>
> ...and '/var/log/Xorg.0.log shows:
>
> (EE) GLX is not supported with the Composite extension
...
--- End Message ---
