Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:57:51 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 08/16/08 12:57, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver
> > and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention
> > Google Earth (a mission-critical application!) don't work. If I use
> > nvidia-installer to UNinstall the drivers, it tells me
> > '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so is not a symbolic link',
> > whereas, right after installing the nvidia drivers, it IS. So, what
> > I'm wondering is whether there's any way to protect a symbolic link
> > from being overwritten. Ordinarily, if I want to protect a file,
> > I'll make it read- or read-and-execute-only, but a symbolic link is
> > always 'lrwxrwxrwx' and 'chmod 555 link' just changes the
> > permissions on the underlying file. Perhaps that will protect the
> > link from being replaced with a file, but I'm not confident! A
> > hack solution would be simply to rename the underlying file to the
> > link name and make THAT unwritable, but I think that might confuse
> > the nvidia installer.
> >
> > Any suggestions will be welcome.
>
> After any xorg update, I go into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions
> and manually symlink the nvidia libglx.so.XXX.YY.ZZ to libglx.so.
>
Hey, Ron
Does yours look like this???
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2008-07-13 16:25 libglx.so ->
libglx.so.173.14.09
Sorry about the highjack!!!
Jack
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