This is my first time using Bugzilla, so if I've done something wrong, go easy on me. Initially after installing Gentoo I had used Portage to get my Nvidia drivers. When I first tried to run Quake3 and Return To Castle Wolfenstein I had a lot of Artifacts and problems with X crashing. I tried installing the nvidia GLX file from their site and it fixed all my OpenGL problems. This is only a guess as to what fixed it, but I think the Portage Nvidia GLX doesn't move the Mesa files that the Nvidia GLX from their site moves. I didn't see any other bugs related to this, so I figured I better send this in since I saw a few people having OpenGL problems in your mailing list/discussion board.
Arcady, maybe we can add a handy cleanup script and accompanying informational message? Or was this a result of not following the install instructions?
I followed the directions in the Gentoo Linux Desktop setup guide, didn't say anything about needing to move the mesa files. If you install the Nvidia GLX from their site it looks for those conflicting files and moves them. When I first got into Linux about a year ago you had to manually move these files when installing nvidia's drivers, here's a list of them in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions libGLcore.a and libglx.a In /usr/X11R6/lib libGL.so, libGL.so.1, libGL.so.1.0, libGL.so.1.2,and libGL.so.1.2.0 It wasn't until after I grabbed nvidia's GLX from their site that I noticed when I installed it, it moved a lot of the files listed above, and then I remembered back when you had to move those files yourself and realized that the portage GLX must not have moved those files. BTW, you guys have put together an excellent Distro, I love it. Keep up the good work.
I meant "normal" severity, not "minor". ;^)
Jesse: Are you talking about the files, backed up by the old media-gfx/nvidia ebuild? It was actually the job of that ebuild to move them back in place, when uninstalled; I guess it didn't do that. But now that ebuild is gone, an the new nvidia packages don't touch any files on your system. The problem that you experienced was a one-time bug of transition to the new nvidia package layout. The easiest way is to re-merge xfree ebuild, which would re-install all the misplaced files. Please let me know if I don't understand you correctly. Thanks.
The nvidia-{kernel,glx}-1.0.2880 or later should have fixed this. If not, please re-open this bug.
