I’m running OpenSuse 12.3, 64 bit
Yesterday I accepted an update to the Nvidia drivers. At the end of the day I shut down my system.
Today, while most everything else seems to work, Blender (3-D graphics program) won’t launch. I have several versions of Blender on my system NONE of them will launch, all of them worked fine before the update.
HELP!
nvidia go2= 304.119-31.1
go3 = 331.49-29.1
blender versions: 2.64a, 2.65a, 2.67b, 2.68a, 2.69
all were working prior to update
OpenSuse 12.3, 64 bit
KDE 4.10.5
HP Pavilion P6000- quad core
16G RAM
NVidia GeForce 210
On 02/27/2014 09:46 PM, n hand pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> wolfi323;2627536 Wrote:
>> Please post the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log via http://susepaste.org.
>>
>> And the output of the following please:
> Code:
> --------------------
> > > rpm -qa | egrep “(kernel|nvidia)”
> > uname -a
> > glxinfo | grep render
> --------------------
>> For the last one to work you need to have “Mesa-demo-x” installed. So
>> install it if it isn’t already.
> I posted the log under name=NancyHand var.log
>
> output of the commands:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> nvidia-computeG03-331.49-29.1.x86_64
The next time please post a link, this would make it easier to find…
######:~> glxinfo | grep render
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0”.
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0”.
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0”.
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0”.
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0”.
Error: couldn’t find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0”. - this line repeats another 50+ times
As you can see here, GLX is not working and that causes blender to crash.
And the reason is this:
21.338] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA X driver and the
21.338] (EE) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GLX module. X driver version: 331.49; GLX module
21.338] (EE) NVIDIA(0): version: 304.119. Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA
21.338] (EE) NVIDIA(0): driver.
...
22.109] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
That’s right, but better remove both and then install only the G03 one:
To elaborate a bit more:
The G02 and the G03 driver packages contain the same files but in different versions (of course).
If you have both installed, they overwrite each others files, so the result can be a not-working mixture of versions (depending on the order in which the packages get installed).
This is actually a bug/missing feature in libzypp (the package management system) which has been fixed recently. The latest one in Factory now checks if there are file conflicts and reports an error in this case.
So, something like this should not happen anymore in 13.2. (no idea whether this update will get released for 12.3/13.1 as well though)
As you can see here, GLX is not working and that causes blender to crash.
And the reason is this:
21.338] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA X driver and the
21.338] (EE) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GLX module. X driver version: 331.49; GLX module
21.338] (EE) NVIDIA(0): version: 304.119. Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA
21.338] (EE) NVIDIA(0): driver.
...
22.109] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
That’s right, but better remove both and then install only the G03 one:
On 02/28/2014 07:36 PM, n hand pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> As you can see here, GLX is not working and that causes blender to
> crash.
> And the reason is this:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> 21.338] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA X driver and the
> 21.338] (EE) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GLX module. X driver version: 331.49; GLX module
> 21.338] (EE) NVIDIA(0): version: 304.119. Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA
> 21.338] (EE) NVIDIA(0): driver.
> …
> 22.109] (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
> --------------------
>
>
>
> That’s right, but better remove both and then install only the G03
> one:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> sudo zypper rm nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop x11-video-nvidiaG02 nvidia-computeG02 nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop x11-video-nvidiaG03 nvidia-computeG03 nvidia-glG03
> sudo zypper in nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop x11-video-nvidiaG03 nvidia-computeG03 nvidia-glG03
> --------------------
>
>
>
>
> THANK YOU! Thank you! Thank you! Blender is working again!
>
> obviously - a little knowledge is a dangerous thing:shame:
>
>
Glad you got it sorted. I always tell people that I know just enough to
be dangerous.
