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Date:      Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:07:59 -0600
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, david.marec@davenulle.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: nvidia-driver-169.12
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Rainer Hurling wrote:
> On 07.03.2008 14:21 (UTC+1), David Marec wrote:
>> Laurent,
>>
>>> I think I've found the problem :)
>>>
>>> In "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions", there was "libglx.so" and "
>>> libglx.so.1". I rename the "libglx.so" in "libglx.so.old" and
>>> "libglx.so.1"
>>> in "libglx.so".
>>
>>
>> Beware of Xorg updates; While updating, Xorg overwrites these modules.
>>
>> You have to rebuild nvidia driver following any Xorg updates.
>>
> 
> I think David hits the goal. Especially after upgrading 'xorg-server' 
> you have to rebuild nvidia-driver.
> 
> Personally I prefer to deinstall nvidia-driver before updating 
> xorg-server and then install nvidia-driver again. This restores the 
> previously renamed glx files from xorg-server to original names ...
> 
> Rainer Hurling

I have had this same experience.  Why not make xorgs-server a dependency 
for nvidia-driver?




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