[Gambas-user] NVIDIA driver problem confirmation

[Benoît Minisini]

Hello everybody,

I can now confirm that gambas does not work when the X11 driver from NVIDIA is 
installed, and that it is NVIDIA driver fault !

A gambas user has uninstalled its NVIDIA driver, and gambas suddenly starts 
working ! Here is what he sent me :

> Bingo! That's it! I uninstalled the Nvidia driver. It restored libGL
> which Gambas promptly loaded and it is working fine.
>
>         libGLcore.so.1          libGLcore.so.1    --- WARNING!!
>       xxx.libGLcore.a.RPMSAVE
>       xxx.libglx.a.RPMSAVE
>       xxx.libGL.so.1.0.RPMSAVE
>       xxx.libGL.so.1.2.RPMSAVE
>       xxx.libGL.so.1.3.403.RPMSAVE
>  --- The above files are apparently saved files from a
>  --- non-NVIDIA distribution (possibly MESA) that were
>  --- put aside while the NVIDIA rpm was installed.
>  --- They are now being restored.
> [root at ...88... gambas-0.45]# exit
> [richard at ...88... gambas-0.45]$ gambas
> Preloading gb.qt
> Preloading gb.qt.editor
> Preloading gb.qt.ext
> Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.3.403
>
>
> Yup. It is definitely working. Looks like I'll have to forgo Tuxracer for a
> while though!

I think the problem comes from the fact that gambas is not directly linked to 
X11, but loads it at runtime.

If someone wants to tell NVIDIA the problem :-)

-- 
Benoît Minisini
mailto:gambas at ...1...