On Tue, 31 Dec 2013, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:54 AM, <me at tdiehl.org> wrote: >> >> On 12/30/2013, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >>> If so, the recent xorg-x11-server updates require that you rebuild (or >>> reinstall) the drivers as those drivers replace some xorg files and if >>> you do not reinstall it can freeze the system or crash X. >> >> Another thing you can do if you are using the NVIDIA drivers is add the >> following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: >> >> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia" >> ModulePath "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules" >> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1" >> >> See http://elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=425 for more details. >> >> By fixing the xorg.conf file, you do not have to worry about this problem >> re-occurring next time xorg gets upgraded. > > In case it is not obvious, I'd like to add a note here. If you are > using ELRepo's Nvidia driver, you do _not_ have to do anything as the > referenced issue has been taken care of in there. Quoting Phil Perry > from that bug report (comment 3338): > > "You are correct that the file > /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so is indeed from the distro > package xorg-x11-server-Xorg. We DO NOT replace that file as if we did > every time the distro package xorg-x11-server-Xorg gets updated the > NVIDIA drivers will break. This is the way the NVIDIA proprietary > installer does it and it's the WRONG way." I have used the EL-Repo Nvidia package since I loaded C6 on this machine in the early days of 6.0. Are you saying that I did not have to modify the xorg.conf? The only way I could get it to load the Nvidia driver without reinstalling, was to make the changes noted in the above referenced bug. Please clarify what you mean. Regards, -- Tom me at tdiehl.org Spamtrap address me123 at tdiehl.org