[Gambas-user] NVIDIA driver problem confirmation

[Thomas Mayer]

I run NVIDIA drivers and GAMBAS is fine for me...

Thomas Mayer

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:34 pm, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> 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 :-)