Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nvidia-glx-185
A fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 followed by installing the nvidia proprietary
nvidia-glx-185 extension
fails to activate GLX
This is a combination of the non-proprietary driver still being installed
(xserver-xorg-video-nv) and no
xorg.conf created (a new feature in Karmic apparently).
Whatever logic is used to determine (most likely alphabetic or possibly
directory) which driver loads
first in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers loads the nv_drv.so driver first
- this is not compatible with the nvidia-glx extension - so the GLX extension
is just dropped with only
an error in Xorg.0.log
This causes applications that need GLX to fail - which is where you
first discover the problem
Running nvidia-xconfig creates an xorg.conf which fixes the problem (which I
needed because I was doing
the setup remotely via ssh) by defining the driver explicitly in the Device
Section
This may be related to a number of issues reported with nvidia drivers and 9.10
- also the issue of dpkg-reconfigure doing nothing useful anymore which
googling around my issue
came up a number of times -
This was confusing because other upgrades to Karmic I did had no such problem
- because an existing xorg.conf
is retained across the upgrade - it is not deleted
Auto-loading Xorg modules needs to really figure out what to do about multiple
modules providing the same
functionality (is there a file in the Xorg system which controls which modules
to load like modprobe for the kernel?)
otherwise to use the nvidia binary drivers in Karmic requires an xorg.conf
or is using xorg.conf still the approved solution to choosing between drivers
providing the same functionality
Im logging this in the hope it may help other people - I guess the other
solution is for one of the nvidia proprietary
packages to run nvidia-xconfig post-installation
** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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nvidia proprietary driver glx extension fails to load karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501984
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