Question about installing the proprietary nvidia drivers with RPMFusion

[Hugh Caley]

Thanks, Richard, I did not have those entries in xorg.conf.  Seems to 
work.   I wonder why I didn't get that?

Hugh

> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:08:05 -0500 From: Richard Shaw 
> <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> Subject: Re: Question about installing the 
> proprietary nvidia drivers with RPMFusion To: "Community assistance, 
> encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com> 
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 
> 7:46 PM, Hugh Caley <hughc at aldon.com> wrote:
>> >  So I am using the proprietary nvidia drivers for my nvidia 6200 as provided
>> >  by the RPMfusion distro and kmod.  Works fine.  However, evidently the
>> >  nvidia card/system wants to use it's own version of libglx.so, which is
>> >  located at
>> >
>> >  /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so
>> >
>> >  x11 wants to used a libglx.so located at
>> >
>> >  /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
>> >
>> >  Couldn't get glx working unless I created the symlink
>> >
>> >  /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so-->nvidia/libglx.so
>> >
>> >  which is cool, although it took me a while to figure it out.
>> >
>> >  Today I installed a couple of updates to xorg-x11:
>> >
>>      
>>> >>  xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.6.4-0.1.fc11           Tue 22 Sep 2009 05:33:21 PM
>>> >>  PDT
>>> >>  xorg-x11-server-common-1.6.4-0.1.fc11         Tue 22 Sep 2009 05:33:20 PM
>>> >>  PDT
>>>        
>> >
>> >  one of which overwrote my symlink with a new version of libglx.so, and I had
>> >  to rename it and put in a new symlink.
>> >
>> >  Am I doing this right?  It seems a little unstable.
>>      
> I'm not sure if this would fix it but I use the same driver but my
> xorg.conf has the following section which I assume gets it to load the
> nvidia version instead of the xorg version:
>
> Section "Files"
> 	ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
> 	ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
> EndSection
>
>
> Does you're xorg.conf have something similar?
>
> Richard
>
>    

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