On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 01:19:41PM +1000, auric wrote:
> If you have two or more versions of the Nvidia drivers installed then under
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
> there will be directories for each version and a sym link pointing to the the 
> one setup to use.
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      39 2010-04-01 19:10 nvidia-190.53_drv.so -> 
> nvidia-graphics-190.53/nvidia_drv.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      39 2010-04-01 19:10 nvidia-195.36.15_drv.so -> 
> nvidia-graphics-195.36.15/nvidia_drv.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      69 2010-04-01 19:10 nvidia_drv.so -> 
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia-graphics-195.36.15/nvidia_drv.so
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2010-04-01 19:10 nvidia-graphics-195.36.15
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2010-04-01 19:10 nvidia-graphics-190.53

nvidia-graphics-switch contains a line like

rm -f /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.*o 2>&1 || :

which removes all symlinks of this kind before adding the proper
one.

> Does anyone know how xorg searches for it's drivers?

Maybe it started descending into subdirectories, that would explain how
it finds it even w/o symlinks.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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