nVIDIA binary driver and FC5 test 1

Lars G terraformers at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 00:08:59 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:49 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> alan wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:51:25PM -0800, alan wrote:
> >>
> >>>I figured that the testing list was the first place to ask since it is a 
> >>>new version of X that is fairly specific to FC5t1.
> >>
> >>But Fedora people can't really help you, because they can't see what nVidia
> >>did that broke.
> > 
> > 
> > It is not what nVIDIA did that is the problem.  It is a change in the way 
> > driver modules are loaded in X.
> > 
> > Drivers used to be located in /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/drivers.  They are 
> > now (as of FC5t1) in /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers.  nVIDIA's installer 
> > assumes the old location and puts the drivers there and not where X now 
> > wants them.
> > 
> > 
> >>>Then I remembered why most of my friends stopped using the Fedora mailing 
> >>>lists for answers.
> >>
> >>Yeah, because you get straightforward answers back from one of the actual
> >>kernel developers. Man, that sucks.
> > 
> > 
> > No, because the answers were not helpful and usually abusive.
> > 
> 
> You could try making a symink between to old location and the new 
> location to see if X and the NVidia driver load properly. You might have 
> a long directory chain if the old directories are not there already.
> 
> NVidia will eventually conform to the new standard. Since it is a binary 
>   with no source code available, the NVidia maintainers are the only 
> ones who could relocate the drivers. You could also move the driver or 
> copy it to the location that modular-X is now using.
> 
> Layman's answer.
> 
> Jim
> 
> -- 
> Fundamentally, there may be no basis for anything.


nvidia told on their forum that the next driver will support modular x
out of the box.

after shuffling around the nvidia libs to their new place, i had to
delete x11's
 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglx.so by hand to get opengl working right.


cheers
-- 
Lars G <terraformers at gmail.com>





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