[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Xorg-server 1.5RC6 enters testing

[Attila]

On Montag, 1. September 2008 09:07 Jan de Groot wrote:

> Maybe we can think about a different solution for the near future, but
> until then, this workaround works fine.

For historical reasons i use even the nvidia installer (173.14.12 at the
moment) and a "ls -l /usr/lib/xorg/modules/*wfb*" shows me this:

/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libnvidia-wfb.so.1 -> libnvidia-wfb.so.173.14.12
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libnvidia-wfb.so.173.14.12
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libshadowfb.so
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so -> libwfb.so.1.4
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so.1.4

For me it looks like that the nvidia installer don't touch libwfb.so.

If you extract the nvidia installer "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-* -x" you can see
that there is no libwfb.so included.

And the README.txt says this:

"An X module for wrapped software rendering
(/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libnvidia-wfb.so.x.y.z and
optionally, /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libwfb.so); this module is used by the X
driver to perform software rendering on GeForce 8 series GPUs. If libwfb.so
already exists, nvidia-installer will not overwrite it. Otherwise, it will
create a symbolic link from libwfb.so to libnvidia-wfb.so.x.y.z."

Could it be that this workaround is for elder nvidia drivers or is it
coincidence that i can't see it on my pc?

See you, Attila