[ale] X wants nvidia libraries

[David Tomaschik]

I don't know how often Mandriva releases new versions, but I can't
imagine reinstalling a system every few months.  I do have separate
/home partitions, so those would be preserved, but there's still a lot
of system configuration in /etc, installing packages, etc.  Good to know
about Mandriva.


David



Jim Sculley wrote:
> Bob Toxen wrote:
>> I am no longer to run X after upgrading my Mandriva system to
>> Mandreva 2008.i (i586).
>>
>> During the upgrade process, 
>
> Since starting way back when with Mandrake(now Mandriva) 6.0, I've
> learned to never upgrade.  Always reinstall.  The reinstall is an
> order of magnitude faster and much more reliable.  It also gives you
> the option of keeping most of your existing disk partitions, so with a
> good partitioning scheme, you don't have to do much backup/restore.
>
>
>> the Installation process noted my Nvidia graphics chip and asked
>> me if I wanted Nvidia-specific drivers.  I said yes in my innocent
>> belief that the Installation
>> process knew what to do with the answer.
>
> It does, when you reinstall.  All bets are off with the upgrade.
>
>>
>> Now, when I invoke startx it complains with:
>>
>>     dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so:
>>       cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>     (EE) Failed to load
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so
>>     (EE) Failed to load module
>>       "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so" (loader
>>       failed, 7)
>>
>> The full output from X is at the end of the email.
>> I'm a server guy, not a GUI guy.  HELP!
>
> Check your system logs.  Mandriva uses DKMS
>
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6896
>
> to build the Nvidia module at boot time if it detects a mismatch
> between the nvidia packages, the kernel and/or the kernel source.  If
> it failed to build the module, you'll see something in the logs.  If
> this is the problem, get all the versions to match, and a reboot
> should fix things.
>
> Jim S.
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