severity 397027 important
thanks

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 08:51:43PM +0100, Johannes Bittner wrote:

> > Well I don't quite buy that yet.

> >> As you can see, everything got updated to the current version. But Xorg
> >> fails to start. What follows is a cut-out of Xorg.0.log:

> >> --start--
> >> (**) NVIDIA(0): Use of NVIDIA internal AGP requested
> >> (EE) NVIDIA(0): Version mismatch detected between the NVIDIA X driver and 
> >> the
> >> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     NVIDIA GLX module.  X driver version: 1.0-8774; GLX 
> >> module
> >> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     version: 1.0-8776.  Please try reinstalling the NVIDIA
> >> (EE) NVIDIA(0):     driver.

> > Strange, Can you show me the output of 
> > ls /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ -l
> > and
> > ls /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/ -l

> now that I did a ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers, I found out what
> the problem was:

> In the aforementioned directory, both "nvidia_drv.o" (the one from
> current the nvidia-glx package) and "nvidia_drv.so" (the old one, 8774)
> existed, and Xorg prefered nvidia_drv.so

> I think the drivername should be named "nvidia_drv.so" instead of
> "nvidia_drv.o", as every other driver in that directory ends also with
> ".so", shouldn't it?

Maybe, but the bottom line is that this wasn't working for you because you
had conflicting software on the system that was manually installed.  So
downgrading the severity.

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