On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:49 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: > alan wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:51:25PM -0800, alan wrote: > >> > >>>I figured that the testing list was the first place to ask since it is a > >>>new version of X that is fairly specific to FC5t1. > >> > >>But Fedora people can't really help you, because they can't see what nVidia > >>did that broke. > > > > > > It is not what nVIDIA did that is the problem. It is a change in the way > > driver modules are loaded in X. > > > > Drivers used to be located in /usr/X11R6/lib64/modules/drivers. They are > > now (as of FC5t1) in /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers. nVIDIA's installer > > assumes the old location and puts the drivers there and not where X now > > wants them. > > > > > >>>Then I remembered why most of my friends stopped using the Fedora mailing > >>>lists for answers. > >> > >>Yeah, because you get straightforward answers back from one of the actual > >>kernel developers. Man, that sucks. > > > > > > No, because the answers were not helpful and usually abusive. > > > > You could try making a symink between to old location and the new > location to see if X and the NVidia driver load properly. You might have > a long directory chain if the old directories are not there already. > > NVidia will eventually conform to the new standard. Since it is a binary > with no source code available, the NVidia maintainers are the only > ones who could relocate the drivers. You could also move the driver or > copy it to the location that modular-X is now using. > > Layman's answer. > > Jim > > -- > Fundamentally, there may be no basis for anything. nvidia told on their forum that the next driver will support modular x out of the box. after shuffling around the nvidia libs to their new place, i had to delete x11's /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglx.so by hand to get opengl working right. cheers -- Lars G <terraformers@xxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list