On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:05:46AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
- what could be causing this? Why would the NVIDIA drivers work one moment and not the next? Since I used YAST to install instead of doing it manually via the terminal, it seems I shouldn't need to reinstall the NVIDIA drivers every time I update the kernel, which otherwise would have sounded like a possible cause.
You *probably* did a kernel update which also requires a reinstall of the nVidia drivers.
Everytime you update the Mesa package, it's time to repump the NVIDIA one.
This is only true, when you use the installer. If you do use the RPMs, it's not.
IIRC I was unable to install the rpms from the nvidia site, because they conflict with the Mesa one (such as libGL.so.1).
Feel free to tell me the URL to nvidia's repo, and I will recheck.
10:04 gwdg-wb04:/home/jengelh # l /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-08-01 11:46 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2
10:04 gwdg-wb04:/home/jengelh # rpm -qilvp x11-video-nvidia-1.0.8762-1.i586.rpm |grep libGL.so.1 warning: x11-video-nvidia-1.0.8762-1.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID c66b6eae lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 23 04:50 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.0.8762 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 543564 Jun 23 04:50 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.0.8762
10:04 gwdg-wb04:/home/jengelh # rpm -Uhv x11-video-nvidia-1.0.8762-1.i586.rpm warning: x11-video-nvidia-1.0.8762-1.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID c66b6eae Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:x11-video-nvidia ########################################### [100%] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Switching the use of "nv" driver of X.Org to "nvidia" driver of NVIDIA ------------------------------------------------------------------------
# SaX generated X11 config file Patching /etc/X11/xorg.conf ... done
10:05 gwdg-wb04:/home/jengelh # l /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-08-01 11:46 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2
q.e.d.
So where is the conflict? libGL in /usr/X11R6/lib will be preferred. Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org