Curtis Olson wrote: > On 1/13/07, *Donn Washburn* wrote: > > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > * Donn Washburn -- Saturday 13 January 2007: > >> As a warning! SuSE 10.2 Updater auto updated Xorg. > >> Now FlightGear blows up the X server. > >> It goes all the way back to the command line. > > > > Works here (OpenSuSE 10.2 with Xorg patch applied). What's > > the error message? Any success with gdb? Maybe you should > > join in on our IRC channel for further investigation. > > irc://irc.flightgear.org/#flightgear > > > > m. > I can send a copy of the error if you still want it. > > > > I think this is a common problem when upgrading your linux distribution > packages. When you install the nvidia drivers, it replaces some of the > stock libraries. When you upgrade those libraries, they replace the > nvidia version of the libs with their own again. So now you have a > system with mixed libs and you end up with either flightgear crashing or > your entire x11 server crashing. > > In my experience the easy solution is to just go back and reinstall the > nvidia drivers and you should be good again. > > Curt. > --
That's a must, for new kernels or any Xorg upgrades, also if you have upgraded NVidia and you boot an earlier kernel (with init 3 or when init 5 fails, init 3), you must re-run the install. The procedure I use is to boot into init 3 or to go into init 3 on a VC and if the directory isn't there # sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9746-pkg2.run --extract-only # cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9746-pkg2/usr/src/nv # make install # init 5 (or reboot if you choose to) Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
