Re: lenny: dri stopped working (nvidia)

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 13:56:44 -0700, David Fox wrote:
> On 6/24/07, Florian Kulzer wrote:

[...]

>> The Xorg glx module is loaded instead of the one from nvidia. How did
>> you install the nvidia driver, from the Debian packages or with the
>> installer from nvidia's website?
>
> The driver could have been clobbered, because I didn't install the
> nvidia driver the "Debian Way". I just ran the nvidia *run file from
> their website.
>
> But the libglx*9755 file is still there, and the file date seems to
> match when I installed the nvidia driver. Would a simple relink,
> changing libglx.so to point to the nvidia file, work here?

It is worth a try; if that doesn't work then you can also try to run the
nvidia installer script again. When I was still using the nvidia
installer I had to run it again whenever xserver-xorg-core was upgraded.
(The Debian nvidida packages avoid this by using the dpkg-divert
mechanism to protect the libglx.so symlink against being overwritten by
xserver-xorg-core.)

However, I am currently not using any nvidia cards, so there might new
issues of which I am not aware; the links mentioned by Sam Leon are
definitely worth checking out.

> dfox@m206-157:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/
> total 3771
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   19355 2007-06-01 06:28 libdbe.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   35862 2007-06-01 06:28 libdri.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  147972 2007-06-01 06:28 libextmod.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2460192 2007-06-01 06:28 libGLcore.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  424173 2007-06-01 06:28 libglx.so
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  691852 2007-05-06 15:42 libglx.so.1.0.9755
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   28021 2007-06-01 06:28 librecord.so
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   40017 2007-06-01 06:28 libxtrap.so

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