nvidia drivers from freshrpms.net

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/3/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
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> Ed Greshko wrote:
> > Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >> Something is misconfigured on your system if you need to hardcode
> >> the full path to the glx module.
> >
> > That may be true.  But, unless you can point to the misconfiguration
> > it is of little or no value.
>
> Pardon me if I expose my ignorance here...
>
> I think that the differences arise because of the way that the
> official nvidia installer does things versus the way that the nvidia
> rpms from livna (and I presume freshrpms) do them.
>
> AIUI, the nvidia installer overwrites the libglx.so from xorg.  This
> works fine as far as calling Load "glx" in your xorg.conf, but it
> makes for more work the go back to the xorg driver should one need to.
> The livna packages install the nvidia libglx.so in a different
> directory to avoid clobbering the xorg libglx.so.
>
> The livna packages adds ModulePath lines in xorg.conf that ensure the
> proper glx is found.  That makes specifying the full path to libglx.so
> unnecessary.  Perhaps the freshrpms package hasn't done that?
>
> I have FC5 with the livna nvidia package here and the paths to
> libglx.so are:
>
> $ locate libglx.so
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so.1.0.8776
>
> The "Files" section of my xorg.conf has this:
>
> $ grep ModulePath /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
>         ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
>
> And then there's just a simple Load "glx" in the "Module" section.
> Works fine for me.
>
> Hopefully this is at least somewhat relevant and helpful. :)

You're probably correct.  And if so, then this is a livna bug, as they
should be taking care of fixing xorg.conf to point to the correct glx
module.


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