Re: nvidia-glx in experimental
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/18/07 12:57, Joe Hart wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 03/18/07 10:53, Tomasz Kaýmierczak wrote: [snip]
>>>> Joe. I'm aware of the new version and I think the 9476 will
>>>> be ok for me. Besides I'm tired of reinstallng the drivers
>>>> using the nvidia-installer every time I update my kernel or
>>>> mesa libs (eg. when I update mesa development packages, which
>>>> are required by other dev packages, I must reinstall the
>>>> nvidia drivers)... Florian - thanks for help!
>>> When you upgrade mesa, no need to reinstall the nvidia driver!
>>> Just go to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions and # ln -sf
>>> libglx.so.1.0.NNNN libglx.so
>>>> Tomek
>
>> Thanks for the tip Ron. I'll remember that.
>
>> Tomasz, sorry I was wrong if Ron is right. Ignore my last
>> message.
>
> You were half right! Still have to reinstall the driver at each
> kernel upgrade. But I keep my home-rolled kernel for 2-3 months.
> (And longer if I hadn't the other day installed vanilla 2.6.20.2
> instead of staying at linux-source-2.6.18.)
Ah, so I'm not such a newbie after all. I have experienced the problem
since my Kubuntu days because on this machine I need the nvidia driver
as I have explained before. I didn't know about the hack of linking the
.so file.
I have applied a hack in the past. In the Dapper days, KDE 3.5.3 had a
broken screensaver. I waited more than a month for the developers to
fix it and they didn't. I got impatient and compiled kdesktop from the
KDE cvs and replaced kdesktop.so. It worked fine on my and several
other people's system but apparently potentially caused problems with
upgrades. I was chastised by one of the ubuntu developers for putting
that "fix" in their forum. The messages are still there.
Personally, I like problems, because that's how I learn how the system
works, but I have time to spend fixing them, where some other people
have work to do and don't want to wrestle with problems. They just want
a computer that works and does what they want it to do.
One must remember, experimental software is fun, but it has a tendency
to break, but when things are marked as stable, they usually are.
As for the issue at hand, how long does it take to reinstall? I suppose
that depends on how fast your internet connection is. The headers are
not small (ie:
pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-486_2.6.18.dfsg.1-11_i386.deb
Size: 276494)
I'm running 2.6.20.2 as well, so it should be a while before I have to
do it.
But, I run Sidux now, and I have the du-fixes.sh script that will do it
for me. That is one hell of a script.
Joe
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