opengl and XFree86.

[Vulpes Velox]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:33:11 +0000
Yann Golanski <yann at kierun.org> wrote:

> Maybe slightly off topic but...  I am trying to run some opengl code
> including glut and gl and get the error:
>         Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> with the opengl window opening but no graphics in it.  
> 
> Odd since DRI is neither loaded by XFree86 nor should it be as it
> does not support the Riva TNT2 card.
> 
> Any idea what could be the problem?

You need the nvidia driver... it has two parts a XF86 driver module
and a kernel module... just install it from x11/nvidia-driver or
whatever... then just reconfig X... and have loader.conf load the
driver upon boot