[Slackbuilds-users] Nvidia driver update - for GoogleEarth andAmaya Builds, perhaps others

[JK Wood]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM, <chris.abela at maltats.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My reply was based on my experience of the googleearth and  nvidia
> Slackbuilds. I did not try the Amaya application and I never installed the
> nvidia from the source script so I cannot reply.
>
> Chris
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Pagnan <mpagnan at acanac.net>
> Sender: slackbuilds-users-bounces at slackbuilds.org
> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:24:57
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> Subject: Re: [Slackbuilds-users] Nvidia driver update - for GoogleEarth and
>  Amaya Builds, perhaps others
>
> Chris,
> This is interesting. The GoogleEarth.SlackBuild that I used has the arch
> set as 486 and does a binary install. The Amaya.Slackbuild tests the
> architecture (and in my case chose 64bit) and compiles from source. The
> new Nvidia driver that I installed is apparently, from its name, for
> 64bit (like my old one). But now both Amaya and GoogleEarth work great
> and I did not install the 32bit Nvidia driver.
>
> I have installed multilib and read the recommendations. Could it be that
> Nvidia's new 64bit driver has a 32bit thunk built in?
>
> On 11/22/2010 05:14 AM, Chris Abela wrote:
> > On the other hand, if you originally only installed the 64bit driver
> > libraries for your Nvidia/Ati card, it is recommended after installation
> of
> > the multilib packages, to re-install the binary driver package. This
> time,
> > choose to install the 32bit driver files as well.
> >
> > The graphical 32bit applications that you are going to run on your
> multilib
> > installation will require these 32bit driver libraries. Crashes are
> likely
> > to occur if you fail to install the correct files."
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: slackbuilds-users-bounces at slackbuilds.org
> > [mailto:slackbuilds-users-bounces at slackbuilds.org] On Behalf Of Martin
> > Pagnan
> > Sent: 22 November 2010 04:35
> > To: SlackBuilds-users at slackbuilds.org
> > Subject: [Slackbuilds-users] Nvidia driver update - for GoogleEarth and
> > Amaya Builds, perhaps others
> >
> > Both GoogleEarth.Slackbuild and Amaya.Slackbuild failed for me in that
> > they both crashed KDE. After a long painstaking search I found a
> > recommendation to reinstall the Nvidia driver. Reinstalling my old
> > driver (version x86_64-256) did not fix the problem. The error log
> > indicated that the GLX module was not loaded - even though it was
> > specified in the xorg.conf file and the GLXmodules were installed. Then
> > I looked to the Nvidia site for a new driver and downloaded and
> > installed the latest version - NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.21.run. This
> > fixed both problems. KDE no longer crashes. The GLX module now loads.
> > The release notes for this new version state that it fixes a problem
> > where "multi-threaded applications" would sometimes crash. I have
> > notified the maintainers of the GoogleEarth and Amaya Slackbuilds on
> > this, but I thought that others may be experiencing similar problems
> > with other builds so I am posting this here.
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The 64-bit Nvidia driver comes with the option to install 32-bit
compatibility libraries.  There are actually two different packages
available, one with and one without the compatibility libs.
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/260.19.21/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.21-no-compat32.run
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/260.19.21/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.21.run

The no-compat32 is 20 megs smaller, and I'd imagine that would be the one
used for the Slackbuild, since SBo doesn't officially support multilib.
Alternatively, it's possible that it's running the driver installation
script and answering "No" to the compat32 question.  In any case, I suspect
that's what's going on here.

--JK
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