On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 26 June 2009 18:43:37 Mark Knecht wrote: >> Yep. did all those earlier and saw this OpenGL problem with eselect. >> Sort of disregarded it at the time and figured it would get worked out >> later but now it's in the way. > > So what exactly did eselect say at the time? > > Therein likely lies the solution to your problem.
Well, at the time it seems I remember two options for eselect list opengl, but at this point I'm seeing only 1. Anyway, trying to set it to 1 causes the same error message I remember: myth12 ~ # eselect opengl list Available OpenGL implementations: [1] xorg-x11 myth12 ~ # eselect opengl set 1 Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface...ln: creating symbolic link `./libglx.so': File exists !!! Error: Failed to create lib/libglx.so Killed myth12 ~ # myth12 ~ # slocate libglx /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so myth12 ~ # ls -al /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 338584 Jun 23 16:41 /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so myth12 ~ # ls -al /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/ total 344 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 16:42 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 23 16:42 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 338584 Jun 23 16:41 libglx.so myth12 ~ # myth12 ~ # equery belongs /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so in *... ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 (/usr/lib/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libglx.so) myth12 ~ # So the file is there and owned by xorg-server which is in the list to get rebuilt. > >> I'm trying a kernel rebuild and will reinstall modules, reboot, etc. > > What do you hope to achieve with that? OpenGL runs in user-space, and you have > a problem with a missing header file - totally unrelated to the kernle and > it's modules. I made a mistake earlier when I built this new kernel. (Updating from 2.6.19 to 2.6.29) I forgot to include ext2 support in the kernel so for a little while I had newer modules than the kernel because I couldn't mount the boot directory to install the kernel. I decide this morning to rebuild the whole kernel, rewrite the modules and get the whole thing consistent. Nothing more than cleaning up an earlier mistake. I've just rebuilt python and run python-updater just to make sure that I didn't miss rebuilding something that was required. I have no issues at all completely removing xorg-server and everything it loads and rebuilding it from scratch if folks think that might help. thanks, Mark
