Bug#632566: glx-alternative-nvidia: nvidia's GLX is not set as a alternative for glx

[Daniel 'DaB.' Baur]

Hello,
Am Sonntag 03 Juli 2011, 18:51:30 schrieben Sie:
> 
> I don't see any nvidia driver packages installed on your machine. So no
> alternative registered.

the nvidia-driver is installed via DKMS.

> > lists only mesa but no nvidia, so I guess there is a problem with the
> > alternative-trigger. The trigger-file for nvidia in the source-package is
> > rather short (compared with the for mesa or fglrx), so I guess it is
> > incomplete. I noticed that a similar problem was there with fglrx (Bug
> > 631680).
> 
> No, it's sufficient, because it's a two stage trigger, the file-triggers
> all belong to nvidia-alternative.

ok, sorry for the misunderstanding by me.

> 
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     32 Jul  3 16:52
> > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so ->
> > /etc/alternatives/glx--libglx.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 426497 Jul 18 
> > 2008 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.173.14.09 -rw-r--r-- 1
> > root root 426657 Aug 15  2008
> > /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.debian -rw-r--r-- 1 root root
> > 424173 Jun  1  2007 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.old
> 
> There seem to be some ancient files from unknown sources lying around:
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.*

I deleted them, but it doesn't helped of corse. What helped in the end: 
Installing libgl1-nvidia-glx from unstable and installing xserver-xorg-video-
nvidia from unstable too.

I guess this bug can be closed now. Thanks for your time and help :-).

> 
> Andreas

Sincerly,
DaB.

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