-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/18/07 12:57, Joe Hart wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 03/18/07 10:53, Tomasz Kaýmierczak wrote: [snip] >>>> Joe. I'm aware of the new version and I think the 9476 will >>>> be ok for me. Besides I'm tired of reinstallng the drivers >>>> using the nvidia-installer every time I update my kernel or >>>> mesa libs (eg. when I update mesa development packages, which >>>> are required by other dev packages, I must reinstall the >>>> nvidia drivers)... Florian - thanks for help! >>> When you upgrade mesa, no need to reinstall the nvidia driver! >>> Just go to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions and # ln -sf >>> libglx.so.1.0.NNNN libglx.so >>>> Tomek > >> Thanks for the tip Ron. I'll remember that. > >> Tomasz, sorry I was wrong if Ron is right. Ignore my last >> message. > > You were half right! Still have to reinstall the driver at each > kernel upgrade. But I keep my home-rolled kernel for 2-3 months. > (And longer if I hadn't the other day installed vanilla 2.6.20.2 > instead of staying at linux-source-2.6.18.)
Ah, so I'm not such a newbie after all. I have experienced the problem since my Kubuntu days because on this machine I need the nvidia driver as I have explained before. I didn't know about the hack of linking the .so file. I have applied a hack in the past. In the Dapper days, KDE 3.5.3 had a broken screensaver. I waited more than a month for the developers to fix it and they didn't. I got impatient and compiled kdesktop from the KDE cvs and replaced kdesktop.so. It worked fine on my and several other people's system but apparently potentially caused problems with upgrades. I was chastised by one of the ubuntu developers for putting that "fix" in their forum. The messages are still there. Personally, I like problems, because that's how I learn how the system works, but I have time to spend fixing them, where some other people have work to do and don't want to wrestle with problems. They just want a computer that works and does what they want it to do. One must remember, experimental software is fun, but it has a tendency to break, but when things are marked as stable, they usually are. As for the issue at hand, how long does it take to reinstall? I suppose that depends on how fast your internet connection is. The headers are not small (ie: pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-486_2.6.18.dfsg.1-11_i386.deb Size: 276494) I'm running 2.6.20.2 as well, so it should be a while before I have to do it. But, I run Sidux now, and I have the du-fixes.sh script that will do it for me. That is one hell of a script. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF/Y+niXBCVWpc5J4RAg1dAJ97G4kjxeWOp2UKuAUvEEv+EAfHrwCeNoQy hqXklZnKgo0+j+YibWEcC64= =Pyrj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
