NVIDIA 1.0-7667

[Dennis Veatch]

On Friday 22 July 2005 12:30 pm, Auke Kok wrote:
> Dennis Veatch wrote:
> > On Friday 22 July 2005 10:51 am, Zbigniew �uszpiński wrote:
> >>>These drivers work great with my N6600GT but they always mess up the
> >>>sanity checks for XOrg (at least for me anyway). Short of reinstalling
> >>>XOrg and finding out who is supposed to be linked or not to whom. Can
> >>>someone tell me how to get rid of this error;
> >>>
> >>>+ Running sanity checks for module "XOrg"
> >>>/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a of XOrg is missing.
> >>>/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 of XOrg is missing.
> >>>/usr/X11R6/lib/libMesaGL.so of XOrg is missing.
> >>>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a of XOrg is missing.
> >>>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a of XOrg is missing.
> >>
> >>You can simply turn off sanity checks in lunar control panel.
> >
> > That's the only work around? Sanity checks are a useful Lunar tool.
>
> well it's not really fair: in all reality the NVIDIA module is
> overwriting components from XOrg and that's not good (that's never good).

I agree.

>
> >>These files are conflicting with nVidia hardware drivers thus they are
> >>removed. Thanks to this you always use hardware acceleration.
> >
> > Hmm sounds like there is no way to use a symlink or anything else.
>
> The best way to solve this is to compile XOrg without GLX and use the
> libGLX from NVIDIA, which should solve this problem. UNfortunately I've
> never tested this myself, so I can't say if that will work
>

Is that in the BUILD somewhere? Point me in the right direction and I'll spin 
my propeller on it.