Nvidia troubles again.....

[Jim Radford]

On Sunday 15 Feb 2004 10:34 pm, Jim Radford wrote:
> Sorry to bug you all again, but I can't seem to work out what my problem is
> (apart from a low IQ).  ;)

Well, I think I've fixed it - so I thought I'd followup my own post in case 
somebody else has the problem.

After much swearing and wondering what could've gone wrong I came to my sences 
- ran an updatedb and the locate glx.

It showed that I had the following files (amoung others):

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so.1.0.4496
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.5336

I noticed that the older version of the Nvidia drivers (4496) had a libglx in 
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/ and the newer version 5336 had the 
libglx file in the directory above.

On closer inspection, I found that libglx.so in that directory was a symbolic 
link to the 4496 file. So, I nuked the sym-link and made a new one to the 
5336, calling it libglx.so again, obviously

This leaves me with:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           21 Feb 15 23:43 libglx.so -> 
../libglx.so.1.0.5336
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       687860 Nov 20 20:06 libglx.so.1.0.4496

in the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/ directory.

I restarted the X server and everything was running fine again. I'm off to 
play Neverwinter Nights :)

(If anything I have done is in any way stupid - please educate me)

-- 
Jim Radford
   "If at first you don't succeed - change the DC"