On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 18:16 +0200, Norbert Breun wrote: > > you are right if you look at the past 2 years (possibly more, I can't > recall it). I remember times when X.org did not provide these modules > at all and NVIDIA did.
I'm pretty sure XFree86 shipped these modules before the nvidia driver even existed. > Anyway: NVIDIA tries to avoid destoying things / being destroyed by > new packages. I think it is a good idea to install the modules > versionly named e.g. libglx.so.1-7.3rc1 and libGLcore.so.1-7.3rc1 and > link it to libglx.so and libGLcore.so > > This way any new install will not destroy what existed and it will be > more easy to switch back to a working version. Especially experimental > stuff. There are mechanisms to achieve this with Debian driver packages. Don't blame the packaging system for unpackaged software messing with files it controls and getting burned. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
