nvidia drivers from freshrpms.net

[Todd Zullinger]

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Ed Greshko wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> Something is misconfigured on your system if you need to hardcode
>> the full path to the glx module.
> 
> That may be true.  But, unless you can point to the misconfiguration
> it is of little or no value.

Pardon me if I expose my ignorance here...

I think that the differences arise because of the way that the
official nvidia installer does things versus the way that the nvidia
rpms from livna (and I presume freshrpms) do them.

AIUI, the nvidia installer overwrites the libglx.so from xorg.  This
works fine as far as calling Load "glx" in your xorg.conf, but it
makes for more work the go back to the xorg driver should one need to.
The livna packages install the nvidia libglx.so in a different
directory to avoid clobbering the xorg libglx.so.

The livna packages adds ModulePath lines in xorg.conf that ensure the
proper glx is found.  That makes specifying the full path to libglx.so
unnecessary.  Perhaps the freshrpms package hasn't done that?

I have FC5 with the livna nvidia package here and the paths to
libglx.so are:

$ locate libglx.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so.1.0.8776

The "Files" section of my xorg.conf has this:

$ grep ModulePath /etc/X11/xorg.conf
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"

And then there's just a simple Load "glx" in the "Module" section.
Works fine for me.

Hopefully this is at least somewhat relevant and helpful. :)

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