Re: Anyone run nvidia driver + latest xorg 7.3?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/04/08 12:28, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 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...

Sorry for not specifying the directory where libglx.so lives:
   /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions

If libglx.so is not a link, then I force it to be a symlink from 
libglx.so.NNN.NN.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian
because I hate vegetables!"
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