Bug#704914: glx-diversions: More system information

Sun Apr 7 22:23:14 UTC 2013

On 2013-04-07 22:45, JS wrote:
> I read this bug with interest although I've had no problem using nvidia drivers 304.64-4 with gnome 3.4.

This bug is unreleated to Gnome, it requires MESA 9.x to manifest. And
that is not available in any official Debian packages, yet.

> Possibly related, note below that for the libGL.so library mentioned, libGL.so points to the mesa diversion while libGL.so.1 points to the nvidia version.
> 
> Isn't this an anomaly? [ie, normally wouldn't libGL.so -> libGL.so<version> in the same directory?]

That's intentional, see
/usr/share/doc/glx-diversions/README.Debian.gz

Andreas