ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote:
OK. The light *finally* dawns. There's no way to build the glx with make-kpkg, since nvidia-kernel must be *installed* before glx will build. And THAT'S why nvidia-glx doesn't get copied into /usr/src/modules. </me slaps forehead> So I guess I've gone as far as I can.
There is no way to build glx with make-kpkg because the glx package has nothing to do with the kernel: it is an xfree86 module. When you upgrade your kernel, you don't need to reinstall nvidia-glx, you just need to install a version of nvidia-kernel for the new kernel.
pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ dpkg -L nvidia-glx /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.3123 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.3123 /usr/share /usr/share/lintian /usr/share/lintian/overrides /usr/share/lintian/overrides/nvidia-glx /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.gz /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.DE.gz /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.Debian /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/copyright /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/examples /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/examples/XF86Config.sample.gz /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/NVIDIA_Changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/license.txt.gz /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/X11R6/lib/modules /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.3123 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.a /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1.0.3123 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 package diverts others to: /usr/share/nvidia-glx/diversions/libGL.so.1 /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so /usr/X11R6/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA.so.1