no 3D acceleration after installing nVidia drivers

[blackcoatman]

Hello everybody. I switched to Fedora from Ubuntu and I am rather happy with my decision so far. I'm having a small problem though.

I installed the kmod-nvidia and xorg-x11-drv-nvidia packages (v. 177.82, x64 system, my gpu is geforce 8800 gts) , as I've read. I rebooted and the drivers seem to work allright (the nvidia settings program says so), but Blender (a 3D program) which worked without drivers allright, now doesn't load at all, giving an "ERROR: Unable to open Blender window".
I can't enable the desktop effects either (i have installed compiz). I did "glxinfo | grep direct" as I read somewhere in order to check for direct rendering and if this is the case, but i get a "glxCreateContext failed" message in the terminal.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance :)

EDIT: I forgot to mention that i'm using Fedora 10, though this might have been obvious

[blackcoatman]

Just an update, I updated the drivers to 180.22 and still no improvement. I don't even know how exactly to troubleshoot this. Please, could someone help?

[blackcoatman]

...So after reading and doing tons of stuff that I found around the net, I eventually got OpenGL and direct rendering to work by installing MANUALLY the nvidia 180.22 driver...

I had to run the setup with the --no-x-check flag (since I could not terminate the xserver, noob me) and install the kernel-devel packages to get the installation to complete.

So, Blender works fine now, Compiz as well, and I'm happy ;)