On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:35:35 -0800 Daniel Hedlund <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:17, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> >wrote: >> So I reinstalled mesa-libGL and it recreated the link that I had >> renamed. WTH? Of course, recreating the link means Fontmatrix is back >> telling me that it can't find libnvidia-tls.so.260.19.21. > >Hmm...maybe the nvidia driver registered itself with the >'alternatives' database. Check out the /etc/alternatives/ directory >and see if you the lib* files are listed in there. If so then you >might be able to run commands similar to the following to display and >change where the symlink points: >$ alternatives --display libGL.so.1 >$ alternatives --config libGL.so.1 the /etc/alternatives/ folder has a lot of stuff (half of it is Java), but nothing at all related to video drivers. (But it's interesting to find out about folders that previously I had no ken of.) >When you uninstalled the nvidia drivers, did you just start deleting >files or did you run 'make uninstall'? If not then you might try >downloading NVIDIA's tar.gz file, 'configure' and 'make uninstall' it; >it might reset the symlinks in the process. I ran the nouveau driver exclusively after installing Fedora 11 x86_64 a year ago. I continued with it until I was experiencing problems getting the laptop to display a screen with the classroom projectors at PSU. So I installed the nVidia proprietary drivers. To do so I used Yumex, as I already had the rpmfusion repository enabled. I couldn't get the nVidia drivers to work either, so I uninstalled them in order to go back to the nouveau driver. Uninstalling was more complex than merely uninstalling the package with Yumex, because you have to undo the nouveau-blacklist file that the nVidia installer sets up. Eventually I got the nouveau driver working again. I did not test the Fontmatrix or ksysguard programs at this time. But I still couldn't get the nouveau driver to work correctly with the projectors, so I reinstalled the nVidia driver. In the process of uninstalling the nVidia drivers the first time I learned that the *correct* way to install them is by downloading them from nvidia.com and installing with the built-in script. Doing so installs the nvidia-install and nvidia-uninstall scripts. Supposedly this method of uninstalling fixes everything. (Hah!) So when I uninstalled the nVidia drivers the second time I ran the nvidia-uninstall script. I still had to rename the xorg.conf file that the nVidia install script had created. Sorry I am so late in replying here. I had a medical crisis where I was barely conscious upon arrival that the emergency room. I just got home a couple hours ago after spending the past two days in the ICU. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
