[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#504661: A summary of issues

[Edward Z. Yang]

The basic way to reproduce this issue on a blank machine is as such:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx-dev
ls /usr/lib | grep libGL.so

The source of this problem is a sorry chain of diversions and hacks that
have caused nvidia-glx-legacy-69xx and mesa (and other OpenGL
implementations) to interact in interesting ways. I don't claim to
completely understand all of the interactions, but somewhere along the
way things have gone horribly wrong.

My suggestion is to synchronize the install scripts for
nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx with nvidia-glx, perform substitutions as
necessary. nvidia-glx appears to do things correctly. I will attempt to
cook and test a patch.

Cheers,
Edward