Bug#642497: possible solution to nvidia opengl issue

Thu Oct 13 10:44:31 UTC 2011

I neglected to mention that I also purged the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
package before the sequence of dpkg operations below.

When trying to install the nvidia drivers directly from the NVIDIA blob,
a warning appears about potential problems if the nouveau driver is also
installed (something regarding mismatch with the nouveau shared libs,
despite the setup of alternatives and diversions for them).

However, when this problem appeared, I did have both nvidia and nouveau
servers installed without any conflict being detected.

Perhaps a conflict with nouveau should be added to the nvidia package to
avoid this possibility, based on the warnings from NVIDIA. [This problem
did not arise with the older nv driver.]

--js

--- On Wed, 10/12/11, JS <jshaio at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: JS <jshaio at yahoo.com>
Subject: Bug#642497: possible solution to nvidia opengl issue
To: 642497 at bugs.debian.org
Cc: jshaio at yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 9:52 PM

The sequence of installs below seems to have fixed the problem and I can
no longerreproduce it either with /usr/lib/xscreensaver/endgame nor with
fgfs [the latter made the problem appear within 1 minute and shortly after
froze the X server every time.]
I am still using the original kernel installed in July:
    linux-image-2.6.39-2-686-pae         2.6.39-3 
The last related packages reinstalled or upgraded were related to mesa; it
would appear from them that this problem was unrelated to either the
nvidia driver nor the xserver (I amstill using 1.10.2 for this).

2011-10-09 19:58:26 status installed libx264-118 3:0.118.2085+git8a62835-0.1
2011-10-09 19:58:27 status installed libvorbisidec1 1.0.2+svn16259-2
2011-10-09 19:58:27 status installed
 libx264-dev 3:0.118.2085+git8a62835-0.1
2011-10-10 21:13:15 status installed ccache 3.1.6-1
2011-10-10 21:13:17 status installed g++-4.6 4.6.1-4
2011-10-10 21:13:17 status installed libstdc++6-4.6-dev 4.6.1-4
2011-10-10 21:13:18 status installed build-essential 11.5
2011-10-10 21:13:18 status installed g++ 4:4.6.1-2
2011-10-10 21:35:42 status installed libblkid1 2.17.2-9.1
2011-10-10 21:35:42 status installed libuuid1 2.17.2-9.1
2011-10-10 21:35:44 status installed uuid-dev 2.17.2-9.1
2011-10-10 21:35:50 status installed util-linux 2.17.2-9.1
2011-10-10 21:35:51 status installed install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-8
2011-10-10 21:42:10 status installed glx-alternative-nvidia 0.1.4
2011-10-10 21:42:31 status installed nvidia-kernel-dkms 275.09.07-5
2011-10-10 21:42:31 status installed nvidia-kernel-source 275.09.07-5
2011-10-10 21:42:32 status installed glx-alternative-nvidia 0.1.4
2011-10-10 21:42:32 status installed
 nvidia-vdpau-driver 275.09.07-5
2011-10-10 21:42:33 status installed libgl1-nvidia-alternatives 275.09.07-5
2011-10-10 21:42:33 status installed libglx-nvidia-alternatives 275.09.07-5
2011-10-10 21:42:33 status installed nvidia-alternative 275.09.07-5
2011-10-10 21:42:34 status installed glx-alternative-nvidia 0.1.4
2011-10-10 21:42:34 status installed libgl1-nvidia-glx 275.09.07-5
2011-10-10 21:42:34 status installed nvidia-alternative 275.09.07-5
2011-10-10 21:42:34 status installed nvidia-glx 275.09.07-5
2011-10-10 21:42:34 status installed xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 275.09.07-5
2011-10-10 21:42:35 status installed nvidia-xconfig 275.09.07-1
2011-10-10 21:42:43 status installed glx-alternative-mesa 0.1.4
2011-10-10 21:42:43 status installed nvidia-glx 275.09.07-5
2011-10-10 21:42:43 status installed nvidia-settings 275.09.07-1
2011-10-10 22:01:05 status installed xserver-xorg-input-joystick
 1:1.6.0-1
2011-10-10 22:01:06 status config-files xserver-xorg-input-joystick 1:1.6.0-1
2011-10-10 22:01:07 status config-files xserver-xorg-input-joystick 1:1.6.0-1
2011-10-10 22:01:07 status not-installed xserver-xorg-input-joystick <none>
2011-10-10 22:27:51 status installed xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1+b1
2011-10-10 22:27:52 status config-files xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1+b1
2011-10-10 22:27:53 status not-installed xserver-xorg-video-nouveau <none>
2011-10-10 22:28:20 status installed libgl1-nvidia-alternatives 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:28:20 status installed libglx-nvidia-alternatives 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:28:20 status installed nvidia-alternative 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:28:21 status installed nvidia-vdpau-driver 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:28:43 status installed nvidia-kernel-dkms
 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:28:43 status installed nvidia-settings 280.13-1
2011-10-10 22:28:44 status installed nvidia-alternative 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:28:44 status installed nvidia-xconfig 280.13-1
2011-10-10 22:28:45 status installed glx-alternative-nvidia 0.1.4
2011-10-10 22:28:45 status installed libgl1-nvidia-glx 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:28:46 status installed nvidia-glx 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:28:46 status installed xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:28:48 status installed glx-alternative-mesa 0.1.4
2011-10-10 22:28:48 status installed nvidia-glx 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:29:45 status installed glx-diversions 0.1.94
2011-10-10 22:29:46 status installed glx-alternative-mesa 0.1.94
2011-10-10 22:29:46 status installed glx-alternative-nvidia 0.1.94
2011-10-10 22:30:24 status installed nvidia-kernel-source
 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:31:23 status installed nvidia-kernel-source 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:31:24 status config-files nvidia-kernel-source 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 22:31:24 status not-installed nvidia-kernel-source <none>
2011-10-10 22:32:25 status installed nvidia-detect 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-10 23:11:23 status installed hungarian2.6 0.2-1
2011-10-10 23:14:50 status config-files hungarian2.6 0.2-1
2011-10-10 23:14:50 status installed hungarian2.6 0.2-1
2011-10-11 18:02:05 status installed libegl1-mesa-dev 7.10.3-3
2011-10-11 18:02:08 status config-files libdrm-dev 2.4.26-1
2011-10-11 18:02:08 status config-files libegl1-mesa-dev 7.10.3-3
2011-10-11 18:02:08 status installed libdrm-dev 2.4.26-1
2011-10-11 18:02:08 status not-installed libegl1-mesa-dev <none>
2011-10-11 18:02:09 status config-files libdrm-dev 2.4.26-1
2011-10-11 18:02:09 status installed
 libgbm1 7.11-5
2011-10-11 18:02:09 status not-installed libdrm-dev <none>
2011-10-11 18:02:10 status config-files libegl1-mesa-drivers 7.10.3-3
2011-10-11 18:02:10 status config-files libgbm1 7.11-5
2011-10-11 18:02:10 status installed libegl1-mesa-drivers 7.10.3-3
2011-10-11 18:02:11 status installed libdrm-nouveau1a 2.4.26-1
2011-10-11 18:02:11 status not-installed libegl1-mesa-drivers <none>
2011-10-11 18:02:12 status config-files libdrm-nouveau1a 2.4.26-1
2011-10-11 18:02:12 status not-installed libdrm-nouveau1a <none>
2011-10-11 18:04:26 status installed glx-alternative-mesa 0.1.94
2011-10-11 18:04:30 status installed libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-6
2011-10-11 18:04:30 status installed libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-6
2011-10-11 18:04:30 status installed libglapi-mesa 7.11-6
2011-10-11 18:04:31 status installed libglide3 2002.04.10ds1-7
2011-10-11 18:04:32 status installed mesa-common-dev
 7.11-6
2011-10-11 18:04:32 status installed mesa-utils 8.0.1-2+b1
2011-10-11 18:06:10 status installed nvidia-alternative 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-11 18:06:10 status installed nvidia-vdpau-driver 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-11 18:06:11 status installed nvidia-kernel-common 20110729+2
2011-10-11 18:06:32 status installed nvidia-alternative 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-11 18:06:32 status installed nvidia-kernel-dkms 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-11 18:06:33 status installed glx-alternative-nvidia 0.1.94
2011-10-11 18:06:33 status installed nvidia-alternative 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-11 18:06:33 status installed nvidia-glx 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-11 18:06:39 status installed initramfs-tools 0.99
2011-10-11 18:06:39 status installed nvidia-glx 280.13.really.275.28-1
2011-10-11 18:06:40 status installed glx-alternative-mesa 0.1.94
2011-10-11 18:18:44 status installed libegl1-mesa
 7.10.3-3
2011-10-11 18:18:55 status config-files libegl1-mesa 7.10.3-3
2011-10-11 18:18:56 status config-files libegl1-mesa 7.10.3-3
2011-10-11 18:18:56 status not-installed libegl1-mesa <none>
2011-10-11 18:34:24 status installed libdrm-nouveau1a 2.4.26-1
2011-10-11 18:34:25 status installed libegl1-mesa 7.11-6
2011-10-11 18:34:25 status installed libegl1-mesa-drivers 7.11-6
2011-10-11 18:34:25 status installed libgbm1 7.11-6
2011-10-11 18:34:25 status installed libgles2-mesa 7.11-6
2011-10-11 18:34:26 status installed libglu1-mesa 7.11-6
2011-10-11 18:34:26 status installed libglw1-mesa 7.11-6
2011-10-11 18:34:26 status installed libosmesa6 7.11-6
2011-10-11 18:34:27 status installed libglui2c2 2.36-4
2011-10-11 18:34:27 status installed libgtkgl2.0-1 2.0.1-2
2011-10-11 18:34:27 status installed libgtkglext1 1.2.0-2
2011-10-11 18:34:28 status installed xscreensaver-gl 5.14-1
2011-10-11 18:34:28
 status installed xscreensaver-gl-extra 5.14-1