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

[Lubos Vrbka <lists@vrbka.net>]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> Now I am confused:
me too...

> $ apt-file search nvidia_drv
> nvidia-glx: usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
> nvidia-glx: usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
> nvidia-glx-legacy: usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
i get empty output from apt-file.

> Maybe the .so file comes from an older version of nvidia-glx. What is
> the result of "dpkg -S nvidia_drv"?
nvidia-glx: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so

btw, dpkg -l nvidia-glx gives me
1.0.9625-2 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver

> The only thing I know for sure from when I switched from the nvidia
> installer to the Debian packages is that the .so and the .o module do
> not play nicely together (at least if the .so file comes from the
> nvidia installer).
strange... there is really no .o file in xorg/modules/drivers/

regards,

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