nvidia-drivers-340.76 Direct Rendering on ION card

esa1966 · April 11, 2015

Hi,

I spend hours to find a solution but without success.

Last emerge installed the NVIDIA drivers 340.76.

My last working drivers was : x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.58 or 340.65 (ION card support only version below 341.0.0 ).

After this :

GLX is no more loaded ? in Xorg.0.log I can see :

(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so$

[ 314.201] (II) UnloadModule: "glx"

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X

[ 314.223] (EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X

[ 314.223] (EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If

[ 314.223] (EE) NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please try

[ 314.223] (EE) NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.

As a consequence, XBMC doesn?t want to start.

In folder : ?/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions? the link point to the old library :

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   50 Apr 11 10:57 libglx.so -> ../../../opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so.340.65

The new library is : libglx.so.340.76

/usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/extensions
localhost extensions # ls -la
total 8124
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Apr 11 11:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root    4096 Apr 11 11:09 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      11 Apr 11 11:09 libglx.so -> libglx.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Apr 11 11:09 libglx.so.1 -> libglx.so.340.76
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8303476 Apr 11 11:09 libglx.so.340.76

I have done a new link :

ln -s ../../../opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so.340.76 libglx.so

But XBMX doesn?t want to start.

I started X and check with glxgears :

libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

Try to find the cause :

export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose

glxinfo gives :

libGL: screen 0 does not appear to be DRI3 capable
libGL: screen 0 does not appear to be DRI2 capable
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
libGL: Can't open configuration file /root/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL: Can't open configuration file /root/.drirc: No such file or directory.
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals foundmso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

I reinstall ?X11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.76?

 * Determining the location of the kernel source code
 * Found kernel source directory:
 *     /usr/src/linux
 * Found kernel object directory:
 *     /lib/modules/3.2.1-gentoo-r2/build
 * Found sources for kernel version:
 *     3.2.1-gentoo-r2
 * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options...                                                         [ ok ]
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.76
>>> Installing (1 of 1) x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-340.76
>>> Jobs: 1 of 1 complete                           Load avg: 1.13, 0.82, 0.42
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.

 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

!!! existing preserved libs:
>>> package: media-libs/glew-1.12.0
 *  - /usr/lib/libGLEW.so.1.10
 *  - /usr/lib/libGLEW.so.1.10.0
 *      used by /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin (media-tv/xbmc-13.2-r1)
Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries

 * IMPORTANT: 3 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news to read news items.

Then : emerge @preserved-rebuild

It will reinstall XBMC :

Emerging (1 of 1) media-tv/xbmc-13.2-r1

But still XBMC not starting because of no Direct Rendering.

I can't do a downgrade to the last version 340.58 or 340.65 because it doesn't exist anymore.

PS : When I start XMING on my windows computer then I have direct rendering :

localhost ~ # glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes

Thank for help.

esa1966 · April 11, 2015

After 8 hours of debug with different NVIDIA drivers, I find a solution.

Now, the question is why it happens ?

I think I will block the next upgrade because I spend a lot of time with NVIDIA Drivers (for XBMC), PERL (for SqueezeBox).

Solution with nvidia-331.113.

This is an old drivers but I was able to make it running again so I place the solution :

Check that all the links libGL.xxx link to the latest nvidia version :

ldconfig -p | grep libGL

libGLU.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1

libGLU.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/libGLU.so

libGLEWmx.so.1.12 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libGLEWmx.so.1.12

libGLEWmx.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/libGLEWmx.so

libGLEW.so.1.12 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libGLEW.so.1.12

libGLEW.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/libGLEW.so

libGL.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1

libGL.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/libGL.so

Then, check the folder ?/usr/lib? and file ?libGL*? :

cd /usr/lib/

localhost lib # ls -al libGL*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr 7 10:14 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1.2.0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr 7 10:14 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2.0

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 610168 Apr 7 10:11 libGL.so.1.2.0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Jan 30 02:51 libGLESv1_CM.so -> opengl/nvidia/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so.340.65

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jan 30 02:51 libGLESv2.so -> opengl/nvidia/lib/libGLESv2.so.340.65

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 12 02:05 libGLEW.so -> libGLEW.so.1.12.0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 12 02:05 libGLEW.so.1.12 -> libGLEW.so.1.12.0

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 472296 Feb 12 02:04 libGLEW.so.1.12.0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 12 02:05 libGLEWmx.so -> libGLEWmx.so.1.12.0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 12 02:05 libGLEWmx.so.1.12 -> libGLEWmx.so.1.12.0

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 427236 Feb 12 02:04 libGLEWmx.so.1.12.0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 10 2014 libGLU.so -> libGLU.so.1.3.1

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 10 2014 libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3.1

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 579488 Apr 10 2014 libGLU.so.1.3.1

Some links are not defined and are linked to the old NVIDIA drivers (libGLESv2.so.340.65) : This is not the problem whit this driver because this links come from newest drivers.

libGLESv1_CM.so -> opengl/nvidia/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so.340.65

libGLESv2.so -> opengl/nvidia/lib/libGLESv2.so.340.65

The solution is to do the following :

mv libGL.so.1.2.0 libGL.so.1.2.0-v1
ln -s opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.331.113 libGL.so.1.2.0

The result :

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr 7 10:14 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1.2.0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr 7 10:14 libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2.0

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Apr 11 15:36 libGL.so.1.2.0 -> opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.331.113

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 610168 Apr 7 10:11 libGL.so.1.2.0-v1

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Jan 30 02:51 libGLESv1_CM-v1.so -> opengl/nvidia/lib/libGLESv1_CM.so.340.65

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Apr 11 15:50 libGLESv1_CM.so -> opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.331.113

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 37 Jan 30 02:51 libGLESv2-v1.so -> opengl/nvidia/lib/libGLESv2.so.340.65

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Apr 11 15:51 libGLESv2.so -> opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.331.113