Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL
On Saturday 16 August 2008 22:12:14 debian-user-digest-
request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver and,
> all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention Google
> Earth (a mission-critical application!) don't work. If I use
> nvidia-installer to UNinstall the drivers, it tells me
> '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so is not a symbolic link',
> whereas, right after installing the nvidia drivers, it IS. So, what
> I'm wondering is whether there's any way to protect a symbolic link
> from being overwritten. Ordinarily, if I want to protect a file, I'll
> make it read- or read-and-execute-only, but a symbolic link is always
> 'lrwxrwxrwx' and 'chmod 555 link' just changes the permissions on the
> underlying file. Perhaps that will protect the link from being
> replaced with a file, but I'm not confident! A hack solution would be
> simply to rename the underlying file to the link name and make THAT
> unwritable, but I think that might confuse the nvidia installer.
>
> Any suggestions will be welcome.
Alternatives are:
After any xorg upgrade go to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions and (as root),
make libglx.so a symlink to the libglx.so.###.... that is nvidia's. Xorg
upgrades place there own libglx.so file.
OR.
There is a way to have nivida put their stuff elsewhere. Look at the --help
for their installer
OR
Use Debian's versions (note that in the past, I had gotten a lower framerate
with these but on the otherhand, they might install in cases where the
proprietary ones do not).
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