[CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X
Zube
Zube at stat.colostate.edu
Thu Oct 18 22:38:12 UTC 2012
On Thu Oct 18 11:00:54 PM, Ned Slider wrote:
> The reason is that the NVIDIA installer overwrites some distro files
> with it's own version of some libs, in this case the offending file is
> /usr/lib{64}/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
OK, that makes sense. Further testing showed the problem here to
be dependent on whether the machine was rebooted and the new NVIDIA
drivers installed before or after xorg-x11-server-Xorg was installed.
> The solution is not to use the NVIDIA provided binary drivers but
> instead to use the same drivers properly packaged by elrepo for your
> distro. The elrepo rpm package installs these libs to a separate
> directory where they will not conflict with the original distro libs and
> you will void this type of mess. Not to mention you don't need to
> reinstall the drivers every time there is a new kernel update.
Very good. Thank you.
Cheers,
Zube
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