NVIDIA glxgears black screen, no gears!

leTigreBleu

Hello,
On a fresh install, xorg does work, and openGL seems ok:

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7471

can you post xorg.log or should we guess or roll dices ?

d2_racing · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:54 pm Post subject:

CAN you post your emerge --info too ?

leTigreBleu · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:59 pm Post subject:

Here are the two files. xorg.log and emerge --info

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7471

for me : you're doom

Using composite and damage in xorg. Using the option from nvidia to allow glx to run with composite enable, but disabling renderaccel.

But where i think you are doom is because you might have disable renderacccel, as it's know that it freeze xorg with nvidia old drivers and newer xorg server.
But you have an old nvidia card that need the old (legacy?) nvidia drivers

If you disable renderaccel for nothing, re-enable it and this will certainly get your rendering back. If you disable it because it's a need else xorg freeze/crash, you should then try disable xorg composite.

this was my prophetic help for today: the end is near.... !

So what happen if you turn renderaccel on ?

leTigreBleu · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:48 pm Post subject:

Thank you Krinn for the answer. I have turned RenderAccel on (well, I have commented out the line that turned it off). There is nothing new: xorg still works, and glxgears is still black.
the xorg log file says:

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7471

That's good news, at least when it work, you'll get an improvement.

Now try adding, Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"

leTigreBleu · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:08 pm Post subject:

Done. No change. I have even upgraded to nvidia-drivers-96.43.16 just to test (I reboot each time).
I am going to go back to the .14 version (the stable one).

How can I emerge xorg again, to be sure that everything related to xorg is up to date (I have already done a world update yesterday, but xorg was not in the update I think)?

Lionel

From log:

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7471

try with the 71.* series

leTigreBleu · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:55 am Post subject:

Thank you Krinn for your time and your help.
- I have emerged again xorg to have a clean install. No change.
- I have tested with both 96.43.14 and .16 nvidia drivers. No change.
- I have tried with the 71 series, but they are not supported by the new xorg:

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:01 pm Post subject:

From the xorg.conf that you posted, it looks like the version of nvidia-drivers that you were using was working

This is from my xorg.conf

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7471

Maybe it's not coming from xorg itself.

Check your opengl, re-eselect nvidia-opengl, run lafilefixer (i remember that old libGL.la was running around in my directory).

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

... or glxgears itself.
If you have KDE4, go into System Settings -> Desktop -> Screen Savers, and select an OpenGL one and run test on it to see if it works.

BTW, did you re-emerge all x11-drivers after emerging (updating) xorg-server?

leTigreBleu · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 5:26 pm Post subject:

Thanks Mike, Krinn and Anon-E-moose (great pun!)
During this afternoon, I have rebuilt xorg and the drivers, used lafilefixer. No change.

Some more information:
- I do not have any desktop environment.
- I just have Icewm and my .xinitrc is:

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

I have a box with nvidia 96 drivers:

leTigreBleu · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:02 am Post subject:

Mike,
The outputs are:

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:50 am Post subject:

leTigreBleu · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:43 pm Post subject:

Today, I have tried two approaches:
1. Rebuilding xorg without hal. The mouse and the keyboard are set up the old way using xorg.conf, and I did

M · Guru Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 432

Hi, just to say you are not alone

It will not help you, but I have same problem with s3 savage on my t20 so I don't think it has anything with nvidia-drivers. I was happily used some kind of dri support for some time, nothing to worry about, update xorg-server, drivers and all is well. Then something happened, I don't know if it is the kernel, mesa or xorg-server., but first I was getting assertion errors for every gl app, after month or two someone remembered that some format change in mesa is not working for older drivers... hmmm
But, now I see blank screen and double score from glxgears

mplayer -vo gl doesn't work but gl2 does. I don't have some gl screensavers or similar but scummvm works as it should.
I don't know if it has to do something with mesa again (glxgears is part of mesa) or xorg-server but time will tell...

leTigreBleu · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:34 pm Post subject:

Thanks M,
I was wondering if I were the only one. I will wait a little bit and check later if new updates to xorg or mesa or nvidia drivers solve the problem.
Have a nice week-end,
Lionel
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d2_racing · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:38 pm Post subject:

Nice

leTigreBleu · Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 6:42 pm Post subject:

Hello again,
After another fresh install (on another partition on the same PC), glxgears still gives me a black window.
BUT...
But gliv works (it is an openGL viewer). I will check with a few other softwares to see if this problem is a 3D problem or not.
(Xorg is the latest stable, everything is in the stable branch).
Have you encountered such an issue with an old nviia card (< 0.97 driver)?
Sincerely yours,
Lionel (I still want a fresh Gentoo Linux)
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