Latest xorg update breaks beryl ! (SOLVED)

Eric Donkersloot eric.donkersloot at gmail.com
Thu Jan 11 13:41:30 UTC 2007


On Jan 11, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Wolfgang wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 11:19 +0000, Chris Jones wrote:
>> On Thursday 11 January 2007 3:06 am, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>>> Eric Donkersloot wrote:
>>>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so had been overwritten by
>>>> the xorg package...recompiling the nvidia driver did the trick...
>>>
>>> That sounds like a good reason to use a properly packaged version of
>>> the nvidia driver - one that doesn't overwrite other files on the
>>> system and cause odd failures such as this.  :)
>>
>> Indeed. For this very reason I strongly recommend NOT using the  
>> default nvidia
>> installer, but one of the packaged rpms from an FC repo, either  
>> livna or
>> atrpms for instance. These rpms, almongst over useful these avoid  
>> conflicts
>> like this.
>>

I use a custom kernel (I need a different kernel stack size), so  
using a packaged version is not an option for me.

Cheers,

Eric
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Eric Donkersloot
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eric.donkersloot at gmail.com






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