On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:05:46AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >>> >> - what could be causing this?  Why would the NVIDIA drivers work one
> >>> >> moment and not the next?  Since I used YAST to install instead of
> >>> >> doing it manually via the terminal, it seems I shouldn't need to
> >>> >> reinstall the NVIDIA drivers every time I update the kernel, which
> >>> >> otherwise would have sounded like a possible cause.
> >>> >
> >>> >You *probably* did a kernel update which also requires a reinstall of
> >>> >the nVidia drivers.
> >>> 
> >>> Everytime you update the Mesa package, it's time to repump the NVIDIA 
> >>> one.
> >>
> >>This is only true, when you use the installer. If you do use the RPMs,
> >>it's not.
> >
> >IIRC I was unable to install the rpms from the nvidia site, because they 
> >conflict with the Mesa one (such as libGL.so.1).
> >
> >Feel free to tell me the URL to nvidia's repo, and I will recheck.
> 
> 10:04 gwdg-wb04:/home/jengelh # l /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 12 2006-08-01 11:46 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> 
> libGL.so.1.2
> 
> 
> 10:04 gwdg-wb04:/home/jengelh # rpm -qilvp 
> x11-video-nvidia-1.0.8762-1.i586.rpm |grep libGL.so.1
> warning: x11-video-nvidia-1.0.8762-1.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: 
> NOKEY, key ID c66b6eae
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root               17 Jun 23 04:50 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.0.8762
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root           543564 Jun 23 04:50 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0.8762
> 
> 
> 10:04 gwdg-wb04:/home/jengelh # rpm -Uhv 
> x11-video-nvidia-1.0.8762-1.i586.rpm 
> warning: x11-video-nvidia-1.0.8762-1.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: 
> NOKEY, key ID c66b6eae
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
>    1:x11-video-nvidia       ########################################### 
> [100%]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Switching the use of "nv" driver of X.Org to "nvidia" driver of NVIDIA
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # SaX generated X11 config file
> Patching /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... done
> 
> 10:05 gwdg-wb04:/home/jengelh # l /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 12 2006-08-01 11:46 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> 
> libGL.so.1.2
> 
> q.e.d.

So where is the conflict? libGL in /usr/X11R6/lib will be preferred.

Stefan

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