On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Maarten Hilgenga wrote:
> Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Maarten Hilgenga wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>after doing an online update, a software package called abaqus is unable
> >>to display any graphics because the glx module is missing. I found out
> >>the update included the latest NVIDIA driverupdate , which was not my
> >>intention. I've been able to restore the system back to mesasoft and
> >>included "Load glx" in the XFree86 file, but in XFree86.0.log I saw that
> >>X wasn't able to find the glx module. I'm using XFree86 version 4.1.0
> >>and read that glx is included from XFree86 version 4, but I'm unable to
> >>find this module. Can anyone tell me how to reinstall the glx mod?
> >>
> >
> >
> > You probably have two glx in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions.
> > libglx.a and libglx.so. The .so takes precedence. If you remove
> > NVIDIA's .so from there, XFree86's .a will get used.
> >
> >
> > Mark.
> >
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> THe two libs you 're mentioning aren't there, the only glx lib there is
> libglx.a.xf86_glx.
>
I've not see such a library before. Maybe it's some wrapper that
your Linux distribution setup. When I install XFree86, I get a libglx.a.
Assuming libglx.a.xf86_glx is actually libglx.a you could try renaming
it or having a libglx.a symlink pointing to that library.
Mark.
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