ati messed up nvidia driver

tronica · 2007-09-12 17:57:22

I was using a nvidia card, i then got a ati card, uninstalled the nvidia driver. Installed the fglrx driver, and didn't like it. So i uninstalled the fglrx driver. and reinstalled the nvidia driver....now the nividia driver doesn't work. I get the following with glxinfo

[tronica@desktop ~]$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
Segmentation fault
[tronica@desktop ~]$

any ideas.

Cerebral · 2007-09-12 18:19:01

I'm assuming you're using pacman for all these installations/uninstallations? ie - "uninstalled the nvidia driver" means pacman -R nvidia and "installed the fglrx driver" means pacman -S fglrx?

Silly question: I assume you put your nvidia card back in, right?
What's /var/log/Xorg.0.log look like?

dschrute · 2007-09-12 18:34:45

It sounds to me like your xorg.conf file is still configured for ati...
Check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and make sure the correct modules are loading, and that you are using the correct driver. For NVidia cards, you want

Driver "nvidia"

and

Load "glx"

but *not*

Load "dri"

See the wiki entry for NVidia cards :
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA

tronica · 2007-09-12 19:51:19

I unistalled the nvidia driver again, and then restarted. Then once i was booted back up, i installed it, and all is working. Thanks for the replies though

Cerebral · 2007-09-12 20:09:53

tronica wrote:

I unistalled the nvidia driver again, and then restarted. Then once i was booted back up, i installed it, and all is working. Thanks for the replies though

Sounds like the fglrx kernel module might still have been loaded into the kernel. In any case, glad it's working again.

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#1 2007-09-12 17:57:22

ati messed up nvidia driver

#2 2007-09-12 18:19:01

Re: ati messed up nvidia driver

#3 2007-09-12 18:34:45

Re: ati messed up nvidia driver

#4 2007-09-12 19:51:19

Re: ati messed up nvidia driver

#5 2007-09-12 20:09:53

Re: ati messed up nvidia driver

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