On 2011-06-18 21:26, David Baron wrote: > On Saturday 16 Sivan 5771 06:28:50 Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> On 2011-06-15 20:55, David Baron wrote: >>> On Wednesday 13 Sivan 5771 11:18:53 Andreas Beckmann wrote: >>>> Try >>>> >>>> dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-installer-cleanup >>>> >>>> Andreas >>> >>> Did this OK. Did not change anything. >> >> Reinstall nvidia-installer-cleanup and post the error message this >> installation produces. There must be some error as the package does not >> configure properly. >> >> Andreas > > This is it: > Setting up nvidia-installer-cleanup (20110515+1) ... > Setting up libglx-nvidia-alternatives (270.41.19-1) ... > ERROR: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so does exist even if it is > diverted. Aborting.
That's the culprit. Your system is somehow broken ... there are files that werent expected to exist ... > So .. the cleanup does install. The libglx-nvidia-alternatives problem is > still thee. Note that I synlinksed the extensions/libglx.so myself Undo ... and retry >--it has no effect, It does - breaks libglx-nvidia-alternatives > however, some programs look for something there to know that opengl is > available! This is NOT what caused the original error which is what ends this > report. If all the packages are installed properly, in the end you will have something in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so > So ... two things here: > > 1. Something does need to be in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so > whether or not diverted, dummy or for real. Otherwise, flightgear, for > example, will not run! It will be once all the packages have been configured. > 2. There is a problem in the libglx-nvidia-alternatives script preventing its > configuration. As I posted, nothing is set up for libglx.so but that it > apparently does not matter, that the libGL1 setup seems to take care of this. Your system is "broken" in a way unknown to libglx-nvidia-alternatives, so it gives up and lets you fix it. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
