Problem with nvidia installer

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Sat Sep 4 02:52:25 UTC 2004


On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:42:47PM -0400, John Myshrall wrote:
> I had this problem with Debian. I got spoiled by the Suse install. Debian is great as well. 
> 
> BTW GLcore and dri are both removed on my system 
> 
> Try running 
> 
> ldd `which glxgears' | grep libGL
>  
> You may have a problem with the libGL.so and LibGL.so.1. Check /usr/lib/tls. If for some reason they stay linked try renaming. 
> The files that should be used are the libGL.so.(your version#) and libGL.so.1.(your version#).  They will be in the same directory.

The TLS stuff is handled nicely by Debian on boot, where it detects if
the current kernel needs/supports it or not, and sets up the right links
for you automatically.  Rather handy.

Lennart Sorensen
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