Bug#511837: Cannot properly install nVidia proprietary driver in Lenny

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

reassign 511837 nvidia-glx
severity 511837 normal
thank you



Dmitry Baryshev wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-core
> Version: 2:1.4.2-10
> Severity: critical
>
> nVidia proprietary driver (177.82) will be installed correctly, but
> will warn user that "libwfb.so" and "libglx.so" are not symlinks. I
> should remove that files and make symlinks by hand:
>
> $ cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules
> $ rm -f libwfb.so
> $ ln -s libnvidia-wfb.so.1 libwfb.so
> $ cd extensions/
> $ rm -f libglx.so
> $ ln -s libglx.so.177.82 libglx.so
>
> But after any future X.org update, I will loose these changes.
>
> libglx.so and libwfb.so should probably be symlinks.
>   

Well, what about fixing the nvidia driver instead? dpkg diversions are
probably an easy solution here.

By the way, this bug report is faaaaaar away from being critical...

Brice