On 10/15/2013 08:51 PM, Thomas Eriksson wrote:
>
> On 10/15/2013 05:19 PM, B.J. McClure wrote:
>> On 10/15/2013 07:52 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:46 PM, B.J. McClure <keepertoad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Just a heads up that once again an xorg update has removed the link in
>>>> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions that points to libglx.so.325.15 in
>>>> /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia thus breaking X.
>>> This is yet another reason to use ELRepo's kmod-nvidia [1]. :-) The
>>> major reason is that ELRepo's kmods are kABI-tracking, meaning no need
>>> to reinstall the driver upon kernel updates.
>>>
>>> Akemi
>>>
>>> [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-nvidia
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>> Errr, this was not a kernel update and elrepo kmod-nvidia is installed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> B.J.
> The libglx.so.325.15 file comes from the nvidia-x11-drv package, not the
> kmod-nvidia.
>
> Elrepo is not putting any symlink in /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions
> only in /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia
>
> It then adds /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia to the
> ModulePath in xorg.conf so the Xserver picks up the nvidia version of
> libglx.so before the Xorg version. That way you
>
> If you do have/had a symlink in /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions, it's
> a remnant from NVIDIA's own distribution, IIRC. It is the
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg package that writes over that symlink.
>
> Thomas
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Thanks for the input. Will take a look tomorrow.
B.J.
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