Hi all, I have experienced regular breakage of OpenGL programs due to the following reason: Following the tutorial on switching graphics cards we have /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.INTEL (intel) /usr/lib/libGL.so.185.NN.MM (nvidia) The current code from the tutorial (switch-graphics init file) does: ln -sf /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.INTEL /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 in the Intel case.
Now the problem is that 185 > 1, so calling ldconfig will revert that change. So after running ldconfig we have /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.185.NN.MM although running Intel card. I have changed the code as follows: In both cases we create a link /usr/lib/libGL.so.100000 -> libGL.so.1.INTEL or /usr/lib/libGL.so.100000 -> libGL.so.185.NN.MM and then a link /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.10000 That way calling ldconfig will not destroy the libGL.so.1 link (unless nVidia comes out with a version higher than 10000 ;-) I attach the script I am using ATM. Ah, in additon I have added -q to the grep option in the beginning so that the output is supressed and only the return code given. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at> Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer <prein...@debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERIBOLL (n.) A brown bubble of cheese containing gaseous matter which grows on welsh rarebit. It was Sir Alexander Flemming's study of eribolls which led, indirectly, to his discovery of the fact that he didn't like welsh rarebit very much. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff
#!/bin/sh lspci | grep -q "00:02.0" # if we find the Intel chipset, use Intel drivers & settings if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then logger "Setting graphics card to INTEL" cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.INTEL /etc/X11/xorg.conf ln -sf /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.INTEL /usr/lib/libGL.so.100000 ln -sf /usr/lib/libGL.so.100000 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 ln -sf /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.INTEL /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so # this one saves a lot of energy! echo stamina > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/speed_stamina # modprobe nvidia-control else # otherwise use nVidia drivers & settings logger "Setting graphics card to NVIDIA" cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.NVIDIA /etc/X11/xorg.conf ln -sf /usr/lib/libGL.so.185.18.31 /usr/lib/libGL.so.100000 ln -sf /usr/lib/libGL.so.100000 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 ln -sf /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so.185.18.31 /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so echo speed > /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/speed_stamina fi
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