Fedora 13 + nvidia + kde

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 11:06 -0400, slamp slamp wrote: 
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:01 PM, slamp slamp <slackamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had a problem logging into KDE after an upgrade from Fedora 12. I
> > have akmod-nvidia installed. To fix the login issue I had to remove
> > /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 as I was seeing ksmserver: symbol lookup error:
> > /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 in my xessions log file.
> >
> > anyone know a better fix? the nvidia driver provides its own
> > libGL.so.1. not sure how to get KDE to use that instead of the one
> > provided by mesa-libgl.
> >
> 
> Are there anyone experiencing this? when i try to remove
> mesa-libGL-7.8.1-6.fc13.i686 a ton of other packages i need will also
> get removed.

The rpmfusion RPMs for the nVidia proprietary driver handle this issue
seamlessly.

> 
> For the moment I linked this problematic file to the one nvidia provides.
> # ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     10 May 26 21:56 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     26 May 29 11:01 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 ->
> /usr/lib/nvidia/libGL.so.1
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 495448 Apr 30 20:39 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 705700 Sep 17  2008 /usr/lib/libGL.so.177.67
> 

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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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