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i have installed nvidia driver (185.18.36) package in laptop sony vaio vgn-z12gn (hybrid graphics) on jaunty. laptop has both intel , nvidia graphics cards follows

lspci |grep vga shows:
00:02.0 vga compatible controller: intel corporation mobile 4 series chipset integrated graphics controller (rev 07)
01:00.0 vga compatible controller: nvidia corporation geforce 9300m gs (rev a1)

jaunty linux kernel 2.6.28-15-generic

after nvidia driver installation x works fine.
"lsmod |grep nvidia" shows
nvidia 9594888 2
agpgart 42696 3 intel_agp,nvidia

cannot work applications in x pymol

$pymol
xlib: extension "glx" missing on display ":0.0".
freeglut (pymol): opengl glx extension not supported display ':0.0'
pymol: abrupt program termination.

glxinfo says
name of display: :0.0
xlib: extension "glx" missing on display ":0.0".
xlib: extension "glx" missing on display ":0.0".
xlib: extension "glx" missing on display ":0.0".
xlib: extension "glx" missing on display ":0.0".
xlib: extension "glx" missing on display ":0.0".
error: couldn't find rgb glx visual or fbconfig

xlib: extension "glx" missing on display ":0.0".
xlib: extension "glx" missing on display ":0.0".
xlib: extension "glx" missing on display ":0.0".
xlib: extension "glx" missing on display ":0.0".
xlib: extension "glx" missing on display ":0.0".
2 glxfbconfigs:
visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b bf th cl r g b ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
segmentation fault



$dmesg
[ 1374.175812] glxinfo[10991]: segfault @ 0 ip 0804ad46 sp bf9fe330 error 4 in glxinfo[8048000+5000]
[ 1640.623988] glxinfo[11679]: segfault @ 0 ip 0804ad46 sp bf8fea30 error 4 in glxinfo[8048000+5000]
[ 1729.562879] glxinfo[12239]: segfault @ 0 ip 0804ad46 sp bff11030 error 4 in glxinfo[8048000+5000]
[ 2075.227586] glxinfo[13118]: segfault @ 0 ip 0804ad46 sp bfd51e70 error 4 in glxinfo[8048000+5000]
[ 2740.164832] glxinfo[15393]: segfault @ 0 ip 0804ad46 sp bf850170 error 4 in glxinfo[8048000+5000]

see libglx.so installed xserver-xorg-core package
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so

nvidia driver installation sets alternate libglx
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2009-08-31 12:28 libglx.so -> libglx.so.185.18.36
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.3m 2009-08-31 12:28 libglx.so.185.18.36
in same path /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions
nvidia driver replaces /usr/lib/libgl.so driver version of libgl.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-08-31 12:28 libgl.so -> libgl.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2009-08-31 12:28 libgl.so.1 -> libgl.so.185.18.36
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 618176 2009-08-31 12:28 libgl.so.185.18.36

same libglcore.so.1

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2009-08-31 12:28 libglcore.so.1 -> libglcore.so.185.18.36
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 16118572 2009-08-31 12:28 libglcore.so.185.18.36

whats wrong glx extension ? mean incompatibility libglx.so library nvidia ? suggest workaround ?

pls find xorg.conf attached.

regards,
krishnamo
attached files attached files

just thought i'd let know we're working on problem here. really want sort out, when i'm done, link solution


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