Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 19:40:39 +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> >nvidia-glx is a package, created from the nvidia-graphics-drivers source
> >package. nvidia-graphics-drivers contains the binary .run files from
> >nvidia.com plus some scripting voodoo used in package creation.
> >http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/nvidia-graphics-drivers shows
> >the four packages created from this source package.
> >
> >"m-a a-i nvidia" does the following:
> > ...
> >
> >The "nvidia-glx" package depends on nvidia-kernel-$NVIDIAVERSION -
> >however, this package doesn't actually exist. It's a virtual package,
> >which is provided by nvidia-kernel-$(uname -r)_$NVIDIAVERSION.deb
> >
> >Hence nvidia-glx won't install unless you run "m-a a-i nvidia" first, in
> >order to provide the kernel module package.
> thanks for perfect explanation.
> 
> actually, where does /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so come 
> from? (i hope i wrote the path correctly) is it part of the binary files 
> from nvidia.com? 'apt-file search' didn't reveal anything relevant.

/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so is indeed part of the nvidia
binaries and is only installed if you use the nvidia script directly.

If you use the Debian method then nvidia-glx will give you
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o instead. (".o" instead of
".so")

If you want to switch to nvidia-glx then you should remove the ".so"
file.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian