Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 13:56 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: 2008/8/16 Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I use nvidia-installer to UNinstall the drivers, Btw, the installer from nvidia's website doesn't play nicely with Debian's packaging system, as you have seen. The Debian way to

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-18 Thread H.S.
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: 2008/8/16 Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I use nvidia-installer to UNinstall the drivers, Btw, the installer from nvidia's website doesn't play nicely with Debian's packaging system, as you have seen. The Debian way to do it is something like this:

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/16/08 12:57, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention Google Earth (a mission-critical application!) don't work. If I use nvidia-installer to

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/17/08 15:59, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/16/08 12:57, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention Google Earth (a mission-critical application!)

xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention Google Earth (a mission-critical application!) don't work. If I use nvidia-installer to UNinstall the drivers, it tells me

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/16/08 12:57, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention Google Earth (a mission-critical application!) don't work. If I use nvidia-installer to UNinstall the drivers, it

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-16 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/8/16 Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I use nvidia-installer to UNinstall the drivers, Btw, the installer from nvidia's website doesn't play nicely with Debian's packaging system, as you have seen. The Debian way to do it is something like this: update-pciids apt-get install

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-16 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/8/16 Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver Of course it clobbers it; it's a blob. The only fix is to reinstall the latest nvidia driver each time you update Xorg. The real solution, though, is to get nvidia to free up their

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-16 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:57:51 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/16/08 12:57, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention Google Earth (a mission-critical

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-16 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 16 August 2008 22:12:14 debian-user-digest- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention Google Earth (a mission-critical application!) don't work.  If I use

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/16/08 14:24, Jack Schneider wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:57:51 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/16/08 12:57, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver and, all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to

Re: xorg update clobbers Nvidia GL

2008-08-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/16/08 13:51, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: 2008/8/16 Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver Of course it clobbers it; it's a blob. The only fix is to reinstall the latest nvidia driver each time you update Xorg. No. Just