Sid Boyce wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
Agree! But it caught me by surprise after a upgrade and the only thing
that failed was Flightgear. I alway avoid runlevel 5 so no runlevel
problem here. But not every Linux user has a complete kernel source
ready to have the NV.run work. Anyway it was a warning for those that
have NVidia video cards and SuSE.
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