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 > > >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. It has over a couple of weeks since I worked on this. I solved the problem by installing the nVidia proprietary driver with Yumex (from the rpmfusion repository). After installing the proprietary driver I had no problem launching Fontmatrix, VirtualBox, ksysguard or Avidemux, the four apps that gave the error message: error while loading shared libraries: libnvidia-tls.so.260.19.21: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [...@devil8 After installing the proprietary driver I did not enable it; I continued to use the nouveau driver. However, I did not reboot the computer. A couple days ago there was a new kernel in the updates. I installed it and it said I needed to restart the computer, but did not do so until just now. As I feared, X wouldn't start. But Ctrl-Alt-F2 got me to a command line. As root I tried various things, but startx still said it could not find any screens. I had been using a minimal xorg.config file from the nouveau website: Section "Device" Identifier "n" Driver "nouveau" EndSection So, acting on a hunch, I uninstalled the nVidia proprietary driver. Afterward X loaded properly and I am back where I was. Except that now I cannot launch the four apps listed above - same error message as before. I also note that "yum erase xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.x86_64" renamed my minimal xorg.conf file as .backup. At this time I am using the nouveau driver but without any xorg.conf file. I could always reinstall the proprietary driver and enable it, and just leave well enough alone. But I'd rather use the nouveau driver if at all possible. And it ought to be possible. After all, I ran this computer with Fedora for a year using only the nouveau driver and everything worked fine, including the four applications listed above. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
