{"id":328,"date":"2017-06-17T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=328"},"modified":"2017-06-17T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T08:00:31","slug":"nvidia-failed-to-initialize-the-glx-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the GLX module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another fallout from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=324\">the dbus adventure<\/a>: After I had othalla up and running again, I noticed that the graphic performance was really bad. Playing movies wasn&#8217;t moving at all, it was more like a slideshow.<\/p>\n<p>Xorg.0.log said:<\/p>\n<pre>[ \u00a04978.363] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X \r\n[ \u00a04978.363] (EE) NVIDIA(0): \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X \r\n[ \u00a04978.363] (EE) NVIDIA(0): \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. \u00a0If \r\n[ \u00a04978.363] (EE) NVIDIA(0): \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0you continue to encounter problems, Please try \r\n[ \u00a04978.363] (EE) NVIDIA(0): \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.<\/pre>\n<p>Strange&#8230; Turns out X loaded the xorg glx module from \/usr\/lib\/xorg\/modules\/extensions instead the right one from\u00a0\/usr\/lib\/nvidia\/xorg. No idea why, but adding:<\/p>\n<pre>Section \"Files\" \r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ModulePath \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"\/usr\/lib\/nvidia\/xorg\"\r\n    ModulePath \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"\/usr\/lib\/xorg\/modules\"\r\n...\r\nEndSection<\/pre>\n<p>to xorg.conf <em>before<\/em> the regular path\u00a0\/usr\/lib\/xorg\/modules fixed it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another fallout from\u00a0the dbus adventure: After I had othalla up and running again, I noticed that the graphic performance was really bad. Playing movies wasn&#8217;t moving at all, it was more like a slideshow. Xorg.0.log said: [ \u00a04978.363] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X [ \u00a04978.363] (EE) NVIDIA(0): &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=328\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NVIDIA: Failed to initialize the GLX module<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13],"tags":[111,110,112],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arch-linux","category-desktop","tag-glx","tag-nvidia","tag-xorg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}