Steve Morris wrote:
> 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?:

Have you run "ldconfig" after you used update-alternatives to change the
driver? If not, then do so.

> (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
>
>


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Anssi Hannula