[Slackbuilds-users] Problems building packages that use OpenGL when having NVIDIA driver installed

[Niels Horn]

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Niels Horn <niels.horn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Keith Richie <disturbed1976 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you can try LDView for me... It's available on SBo in the 13.1 repository.
>>> The error comes after a while, so wait for a couple of minutes :)
>>>
>>> Even if it builds without error, the resulting binary won't work on
>>> NVIDIA cards. You will need a patch that is included in my
>>> "waiting-for-sbo-to-open-submissions" queue, but you can get it here
>>> if you want:
>>> http://www.nielshorn.net/_download/slackware/slackbuilds/LDView.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Another one is brlcad, also on SBo, but that one needs >3GB to build,
>>> so only try that if you have enough free disk space and patience.
>>>
>>> I hope this gives the same error for you :)
>>>
>>> My machine is x86_64 though. My 32-bits box does not have an NVIDIA card in it.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Niels
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>>
>> Brlcad x86_64
>> OpenGL support (optional).............: yes
>> Builds fine, launches fine.
>>
>> /opt/brlcad/bin$ ldd mged |grep GL
>>        libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib64/../lib64/libGL.so.1 (0x00007effd8fe3000)
>>        libGLcore.so.1 => /usr/lib64/../lib64/libGLcore.so.1
>> (0x00007effd4f09000)
>>
>> ls -l /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
>>  /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.195.36.24*
>>
>> ls -l /lib64/libGLcore.so.1
>> /usr/lib64/../lib64/libGLcore.so.1 -> libGLcore.so.195.36.24*
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>
> Well, that's good... and bad... :)
>
> Good that is is an isolated problem on my machine, and bad, because
> it's my problem now to resolve it.
>
> I guess I'll be reinstalling some things this weekend, and if nothing
> solves it, do a fresh install.
> The only difference I noticed is that my nvidia driver is still 195.36.15.
> Maybe time for an update first.
>
> Thanks for the trouble!
>
> Niels
>

First of all: thanks for all the feedback I received.

After you guys confirmed that the problem was limited to my system, I
simply did the following:
# nvidia-switch --cleanup
# removepkg nvidia-driver
# removepkg nvidia-kernel (*)
# slackpkg reinstall x/*"
# installpkg nvidia-kernel (*)
# installpkg nvidia-driver

(*) I think these steps are not really necessary, BTW...

and now everything works fine as expected :)

I must have messed something up on this box when I exchanged the
binary nvidia blob for the SlackBuilds packages. Taught me a lesson!

Thanks,

Niels