I installed the nvidia beta driver 180.xx . Then i installed mesa lib i.e libgl1-mesa-dev.deb . Everything worked and I got a simple opengl program working. Even glxgears was giving an output of 2000 fps.
i then wanted to install nvidia’s cuda development files. The driver version 185.18.08.
After I did that, my X crashed! On reboot it gave an option to run in ‘low graphics mode’.
I reconfigured the xorg.conf to use ‘nv’.
I reinstalled nvidia driver using envyng but ‘glxgears’ is not working!
it gives:
Xlib: Extension “GLX” missing on display “:0.0”
GLX failure: couldn’t get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
i’m unable to compile opengl programs!
Next i tried the nvidia driver 185.18.04.
My X crashed again!
PLZ HELP!!!
& suggest the most compatible version of ubuntu i must use for running cuda n mesa3d dev libraries.
Hi I had the same problem just yesterday. It looks like some kernel versions have problems accepting CUDA latest drivers (185.xx beta). Try to roll back your kernel to 2.6.27.7 version, worked for me may work for you too. :ph34r: