Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Steve Morris wrote:
>  
>> After the last cooker update I found through update-alternatives that
>> the opengl interface was not using the nvidia opengl drivers. I have
>> used update-alternatives to set the opengl drivers back to nvidias. I
>> also found that xorg.conf had the video driver set to nv instead of
>> nvidia, which I have now changed back. Why is this occurring as this is
>> not the first time this has occurred, particularly when the video driver
>> version has not changed during the update?
>>  
>
> This happens when you boot a kernel that does not have the proprietary
> nvidia module installed (and/or dkms couldn't build it).
>
>  
Thanks Anssi, I have just realised my wife had booted off the 2.6.26
kernel which won't compile the nvidia proprietary driver. Another thing
I have noticed is that I am getting the following message in xorg.0.log
from the nvidia 173.08-2mdv driver, should I raise a bug on it?:

(II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by default and also
specified in the config file.
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia-current//libglx.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia-current//libglx.so:
undefined symbol: _nv001471gl
(EE) Failed to load
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia-current//libglx.so
(II) UnloadModule: "glx"
(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (loader failed, 7)

regards,
Steve