oz:
This is actually more of a support query than a bug report ("How do I get 3D
going on my NVIDIA graphics card under Ubuntu?") and may have been better asked
on one of the areas listed on http://www.ubuntu.com/support/communitysupport .
You did not say what version of Ubuntu you were running (however I from the log
posted I can deduce that it is probably Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty). If you are using
7.04, the short answer is to take a look at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia .
The long answer is that you are using the open source nv driver and the
open source driver for NVIDIA cards does not have any 3D support. This
is because NVIDIA have not released specifications on how the 3D (or
dual head for that matter) portion of their cards works and nor will
they in the future (see http://www.abclinuxu.cz/clanky/rozhovory/andy-
ritger-nvidia?page=1 ). There is a reverse engineering effort called
Nouveau (http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage ) that is
attempting to rectify this but the project is in its infancy. The closed
source NVIDIA binary driver DOES have accelerated 3D support and other
features not available in the open source nv driver but is not installed
"out of the box". https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BinaryDriverEducation talks a
bit about the pros and cons of binary drivers.
At any rate, does following the instructions on
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia rectify the
problem?
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nvidia X crashes whenever applications use gl
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121574
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