Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (392 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Meindl wrote:
> Hi to all,
> I just wanded to ask if somebody was able to install the Nvidia driver
> 9755 on alpha 3. If I try, the wrong directory tree is chosen by the
> installer, that means that all files get copied into /usr/X11R6/lib64
> and so on, instead of /usr/lib64 .
> I manually copy all files to the - what I think - right directories, but
> then I get a white screen of death with compiz. So it seems I'm doing
> something wrong.
> Feedback would be appreciated, have a nice time,
> tM
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Problem is that xorg-x11-driver-video and xorg-x11-server overwrite the 
files /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (with a symlink to 
nv_drv.so), /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so and 
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so, but the nvidia driver says 
it's unable to overwrite them. removing the symlinks, copying the files 
from the extracted NVIDIA driver and making the library symlinks fixes 
it. I do this every time I upgrade the above mentioned packages from 
factory. BTW the files are also copied to /usr/X11R6/lib(64) by the 
nvidia-installer.
# pkg-config --variable=moduledir xorg-server
/usr/lib/xorg/modules

# pkg-config --variable=libdir xorg-server
/usr/lib
Regards
Sid.
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