Re: Anyone run nvidia driver + latest xorg 7.3?

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Fri January 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> I've been using the "native" ftp.nvidia.com driver with Debian for
> 3-4 years, without any breakage.
>
> The only thing I have to remember is to symlink libglx.so.169.04 to
> libglx.so whenever xserver-xorg-core is updated.
>
> $ ls -1l libglx.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Dec 31 03:03 libglx.so ->
>                                                    libglx.so.169.04
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 763496 Dec  3 22:25 libglx.so.169.04
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 429010 Dec 21 18:43 libglx.so.software

could you explain that process a little more please, I may want to do that. My 
system breaks every time there is an update it seems..
I have the GEForce 7300 card, running Lenny and I usually end up trying the 
NVIDIA*.run 3 or four times before it works, rebooting, X crashes... 
repeat...

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