Sorry for not attaching my logs initially. When using Ubuntu Karmic Koala, I never used any driver installed either from a ppa, nor one installed directly from nvidia binaries either. I used the one coming from the Ubuntu repositories and never had any problems with it. Maybe the md5 check sums of /usr/lib/libGL.so* and /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so* help verifying this:
b7accaea11f60fd1105d8c34b1e77ec0 /usr/lib/libGL.so b7accaea11f60fd1105d8c34b1e77ec0 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 b7accaea11f60fd1105d8c34b1e77ec0 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 40ac933ee69fd016fc1726040f0a404c /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so 40ac933ee69fd016fc1726040f0a404c /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1 40ac933ee69fd016fc1726040f0a404c /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.195.36.15 Running sudo ldconfig didn't solve my problem either. When running ldconfig -p | grep -i libGL.so , it says the following: libGL.so.1 (libc6, OS ABI: Linux 2.4.20) => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 libGL.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1 libGL.so (libc6, OS ABI: Linux 2.4.20) => /usr/lib/libGL.so libGL.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so The above mentioned mailing list entry refers to a problem I think is similar to mine and they trace the problem back to the ABI tag. The author especially surmises that "The ABI tag breaks the sort order with the library that doesn't have such a tag". Maybe this relates to my problem in that the libGL.so.1 entry in nvidia-current doesn't have such a tag and thus the mesa library is preferred. ** Attachment added: "ldconfig" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/46577627/ldconfig -- ld ignores entry in ld.so.conf telling where to find libGL.so.1 from nvidia-current https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571746 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp