Re: Anyone run nvidia driver + latest xorg 7.3?

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Fri January 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> $ 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.
paulandcilla:/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions# ls -l
total 960
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  19291 2007-10-20 08:17 libdbe.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  35695 2007-10-20 08:17 libdri.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 148368 2007-10-20 08:17 libextmod.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 2007-12-15 11:05 libglx.so -> 
libglx.so.100.14.19
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 695048 2007-12-15 11:05 libglx.so.100.14.19
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  27925 2007-10-20 08:17 librecord.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  40017 2007-10-20 08:17 libxtrap.so

does this mean mine already has a simlink?


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