Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Steve Morris wrote:
>> Is it the situation that xorg issued an explicit call to the
>> undefined symbol, and is it the case that if so it is relying on
>> module chaining the get to the module containing the symbol it wants
>> rather than calling the module directly as it should.
>
> Sorry but I really don't have the brain capacity to parse that last
> paragraph. I have no idea what you mean! The glx.so module is trying
> to load a library and it used to be loading the wrong one because your
> cache was out of date. What is the problem.
Sorry Col, I completely stuffed that paragraph, but based on other
threads it is a non-event anyway.
>
>> I have also issued ldconfig and the issue of the missing symbol is no
>> longer present. So looking at /etc/ld.so.conf the nvidia modules in
>> question are being loaded from /usr/lib/nvidia-current. Why do we
>> have such a proliferation of modules all over the place, the modules
>> should be picked up from
>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia-current.
>
> They should only be picked up from there if you have a card supported
> by the nvidia-current driver, otherwise they should be picked up from
> elsewhere..... We also support nvidia71xx and nvidia96xx....
> <sarcasm>the world doesn't revolve around you and your h/w you
> know!</sarcasm> :p
>
> That's why the whole alternatives system is used as nvidia ships
> multiple drivers and it's own libGL... If you've ever used the nvidia
> installer it overwrites your system libraries in a really ugly way.
> The alternatives system works very well IMO and is a very elegent
> delivery of these drivers.
>
> I still can't comprehend how you always seem to have so much trouble
> with all this when the vast majority of users have very little
> problem. I suspect manual tweaking things without understanding how
> things work and thus causing problems.
>
> Col
>
I think a lot of my problems are trying to apply logical conventions
based on mainframe operating systems, and not being able to understand
why there are convoluted processes in place when there are simpler and
more logical ones available (this libglx cyclic nature with xorg is a
case in point).

regards,
Steve