Re: xserver-xorg (1:7.2.ds3-1) to 1:7.3~rc1 fails with orig. NVIDIA 9639 driver.

[Norbert Breun <norbert.breun@oracle.com>]

Michel,

not sure what your intention is. Mine never was or is to blame anybody.

What I do is asking to think about a small step that is used by a rather high number of developers. It will not do any harm to whatever.

Fact is on the other hand: My system runs since 7 years and it runs more or less comfortably with nvidia drivers. GLX was created by Silicon Graphics. GLX, with both DRI and Mesa, is included in the X.Org Foundation's version of the X Window System since X11R6.7.0, that means actually April 6, 2004.

And: You are perfectly right. Debian driver packages exist and they worked comfortably even to me until this spring. I did not find a way to make them work again. Installing the NVIDIA stuff as delivered by NVIDIA was the easiest way to me to solve this.

Cheers

Norbert

Michel Dänzer wrote:

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 18:16 +0200, Norbert Breun wrote:
  

you are right if you look at the past 2 years (possibly more, I can't
recall it). I remember times when X.org did not provide these modules
at all and NVIDIA did.
    

I'm pretty sure XFree86 shipped these modules before the nvidia driver
even existed.

  

Anyway: NVIDIA tries to avoid destoying things / being destroyed by
new packages. I think it is a good idea to install the modules
versionly named e.g. libglx.so.1-7.3rc1 and libGLcore.so.1-7.3rc1 and
link it to libglx.so and libGLcore.so

This way any new install will not destroy what existed and it will be
more easy to switch back to a working version. Especially experimental
stuff.
    

There are mechanisms to achieve this with Debian driver packages. Don't
blame the packaging system for unpackaged software messing with files it
controls and getting burned.