On Saturday 16 August 2008 22:12:14 debian-user-digest- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems every time xorg is updated it clobbers my Nvidia driver and, > all of a sudden, those cool GLX screen savers, not to mention Google > Earth (a mission-critical application!) don't work. If I use > nvidia-installer to UNinstall the drivers, it tells me > '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so is not a symbolic link', > whereas, right after installing the nvidia drivers, it IS. So, what > I'm wondering is whether there's any way to protect a symbolic link > from being overwritten. Ordinarily, if I want to protect a file, I'll > make it read- or read-and-execute-only, but a symbolic link is always > 'lrwxrwxrwx' and 'chmod 555 link' just changes the permissions on the > underlying file. Perhaps that will protect the link from being > replaced with a file, but I'm not confident! A hack solution would be > simply to rename the underlying file to the link name and make THAT > unwritable, but I think that might confuse the nvidia installer. > > Any suggestions will be welcome.
Alternatives are: After any xorg upgrade go to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions and (as root), make libglx.so a symlink to the libglx.so.###.... that is nvidia's. Xorg upgrades place there own libglx.so file. OR. There is a way to have nivida put their stuff elsewhere. Look at the --help for their installer OR Use Debian's versions (note that in the past, I had gotten a lower framerate with these but on the otherhand, they might install in cases where the proprietary ones do not). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
