On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 03:22:39PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Sat, 8 Apr 2017 15:18:12 -0400 "A. F. Cano" <a...@shibaya.lonestar.or > g> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 12:44:32AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > ... > > > The problem is that your dpkg alternative is set to use mesa rather > > > than nvidia to provide glx. That's why the symlink was missing. > > > > > > You can fix this manually by running: > > > > > > sudo update-glx --config glx > > > > Mmm... Running this returns: > > > > There is only one alternative in link group glx (providing > > /usr/lib/glx): /usr/lib/mesa-diverted > > Nothing to configure. > > Processing triggers for glx-alternative-mesa (0.7.4) ... > > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9) ... > > > > I wonder what else I need. Libg11-nvidia-legacy-304xx-glx is > > installed (version 304.135) > > The alternatives (and as a consequence the symlinks, the modprobe files > etc) are set up by the nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative maintainer > scripts. If you still have the apt logs, could you please check if > there was any error when installing/upgrading that package?
>From /var/log/apt/history.log.1.gz: nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative:i386 (304.131-1, 304-135-2) One of possibly hundreds of packages upgraded on: Start-Date: 2017-03-28 02:17:28 End-Date: 2017-03-28 05:12:29 Nothing else about this package in the log file. No errors apparently. > > Also to fix it please try: > > dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative # dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative Processing triggers for nvidia-legacy-304xx-alternative (304.135-2) ... update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/lib/nvidia/legacy-304xx because link group nvidia is broken update-alternatives: warning: not replacing /etc/nvidia/nvidia-modprobe.conf with a link Processing triggers for glx-alternative-nvidia (0.7.4) ... Processing triggers for update-glx (0.7.4) ... Processing triggers for glx-alternative-nvidia (0.7.4) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/nvidia to provide /usr/lib/glx (glx) in auto mode Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.127) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-686-pae This seems to have fixed it. Update-glx --config glx now returns 4 choices and /usr/lib/nvidia in auto mode is the current choice. Thanks! Augustine
