opengl-update annoyance..

qubex · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:37 pm Post subject: opengl-update annoyance..

It seems that everytime I run an app that requires opengl I have to run opengl-update nvidia as root. I can understand doing this after I run emerge nvidia-glx, but every time I wish to use opengl is too much.

If I turn on my PC and don't do this before running X, I get errors when trying to start an opengl app.

If I try to compile any software that might use the GL libs, I get errors like this post:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=87053&highlight=openglupdate+nvidia

(though for me I don't need the xfree drivers, nvidia works fine for compilation)

I'm stuck and at my wits end. I just rebooted and ran the opengl-update before starting X. I've been using my PC for about 20 minutes and just decided to test glxgears.. No glx libs found!!! Running opengl-update nvidia solves this.

Am I doing something wrong? Should I put this in cron to run every 15 mins?

Thanks for ANY advice/pointers you can give!

Roguelazer · Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:47 pm Post subject:

You should only have to run it once!
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aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

I think I had this problem about 6 months ago...

I can't remember how I solved it... Maybe try searching the forums? If I remember correctly (which I probably don't) it had something to do with something not pointing somewhere.

opengl-update is basically all symlink trickery with files in /usr/lib/opengl/ being linked to their respective places in /usr/lib. I think my problem was that something in that process was b0rked.

Sorry I couldn't be more help :/

I can give you an idea or two, perhaps.

Try unmerging opengl-update, nvidia-glx, nvidia-kernel. Make sure /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia is cleared out. Then try remerging nvidia-kernel, nvidia-glx, opengl-update, followed by `opengl-update nvidia`.

moby dick · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:59 am Post subject: opengl-update nvidia

Have you recently done an emerge nvidia-glx?
I did so and now sometimes when I try to start an GLX application it says

jmquigs · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 11

I'm having a similar problem. Except in my case, GLX gets broken when I emerge a package, or when I reboot the computer. It seemed to start happening when I upgraded to the 2.6-test4 kernel, but I'm not sure that is the cause.

slarti` · Retired Dev Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 376 Location: UK

/etc/X11/XF86Config, your video driver is "nvidia" right?
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andrew_j_w · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2003 Posts: 534 Location: York, UK

Try going into /usr/lib and doing an ls -l libGL*. You'll probably find that you've got some OpenGL libraries from an old version of the nvidia driver - try deleting them and then reemerging nvidia-glx.

That was the problem and solution for me...
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KrS · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 10:33 am Post subject:

thanx, your help give me the solution too..