On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 01:53:50 pm Brett Pemberton wrote:
> > I hit a problem a while back when upgrading. I upgraded the kernel first
> > to make sure that it worked, including the nvidia driver. When this
> > worked I upgraded the rest of the system, including X. This overwrote the
> > openGL library that nvidia installs.
>
> To be fair, that definitely sounds like a distribution problem.
>
> An openGL package shouldn't be overwriting files owned by the nvidia
> package. Can't really blame nvidia for that one.
It's the other way around. The nvidia package overwrites the glx library
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
in the X distribution. Upgrading X breaks the nvidia driver unless it is
always immediately reinstalled.
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