On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:57:51 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 08/16/08 12:57, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Hello: > > > > It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver > > and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention > > Google Earth (a mission-critical application!) don't work. If I use > > nvidia-installer to UNinstall the drivers, it tells me > > '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so is not a symbolic link', > > whereas, right after installing the nvidia drivers, it IS. So, what > > I'm wondering is whether there's any way to protect a symbolic link > > from being overwritten. Ordinarily, if I want to protect a file, > > I'll make it read- or read-and-execute-only, but a symbolic link is > > always 'lrwxrwxrwx' and 'chmod 555 link' just changes the > > permissions on the underlying file. Perhaps that will protect the > > link from being replaced with a file, but I'm not confident! A > > hack solution would be simply to rename the underlying file to the > > link name and make THAT unwritable, but I think that might confuse > > the nvidia installer. > > > > Any suggestions will be welcome. > > After any xorg update, I go into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions > and manually symlink the nvidia libglx.so.XXX.YY.ZZ to libglx.so. > Hey, Ron Does yours look like this??? lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2008-07-13 16:25 libglx.so -> libglx.so.173.14.09 Sorry about the highjack!!! Jack -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
