Bug 81435 – opengl-update-2.1.0-r1 doesn't link the nvidia libglx.so module extension

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description RoLo 2005-02-09 18:04:01 UTC]

I was getting no glx and this error on the /var/log/Xorg.0.log

(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX

I did the opengl-update and still get the same error.
I did locate libglx.so and get

/usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
/usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so

but when I did
stat /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
I get
stat: cannot stat `/usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so': No such file or directory

so I did 
ln -s /usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so

and everything works fine!
so I guess opengl-update is not doing the link.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.stat /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
2.opengl-update nvidia
3.stat /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so

Actual Results:  
stat: cannot stat `/usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so': No such file or directory

Expected Results:  
  File: `/usr/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so' ->
`/usr/lib/opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so'
  Size: 43              Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   symbolic link
Device: 302h/770d       Inode: 266143      Links: 1
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2005-02-09 22:03:08.664543000 -0400
Modify: 2005-02-09 22:03:08.664543000 -0400
Change: 2005-02-09 22:03:08.664543000 -0400

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-02-09 21:19:24 UTC]

you neglected to provide `emerge info` like the bug report page told you to

also, you didnt mention what versions of xorg-x11 / nvidia-glx you're using

[Comment 2 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2005-02-09 23:04:31 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79552 ***