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Heiko Baums <lists@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Am 14.01.2015 um 02:21 schrieb walt: |
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> > Here are some hints for ~amd64 users who are about to have trouble with |
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> > gnome3-session failing to start: |
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> > |
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> > After updating today to mesa-10.4.2 and xorg-server-1.16.3-r1, gnome3 |
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> > failed to start, complaining that 3d acceleration was not available. |
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> > |
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> > This was true, unfortunately, and the reason is that xorg-server is |
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> > looking for the nvidia glx module in the wrong directory, i.e. |
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> > /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so. |
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> > |
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> > The correct path is /usr/lib64/opengl/nvidia/extensions/libglx.so. |
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> > |
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> > Normally, 'eselect opengl' sets this path correctly, but not today, |
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> > apparently. |
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> > |
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> > I finally worked around this problem by creating an appropriate |
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> > symlink to the nvidia libglx.so file in the correct location. |
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> > |
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> > Another recent problem is that xorg-server is honoring *only* the |
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> > first path listed in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20opengl, and fails if |
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> > the appropriate file isn't there: |
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> > |
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> > i.e. it looks in /usr/lib32/ as the first default path (even on a |
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> > 64-bit machine) and fails to look in /usr/lib64/ even though that |
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> > path is correctly included in the list of places to look. |
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> > |
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> > I think the devs are already aware of these bugs and are working |
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> > on the problem. (Obviously not fixed yet :) |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > BTW, some good news: mesa-10.4.2 fixes a problem with running |
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> > gnome3 as virtualbox guest: The software rasterizer in the new |
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> > mesa is now fast enough to satisfy /usr/libexec/gnome-session- |
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> > check-accelerated, so gnome-session no longer craps out when |
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> > starting in virtualbox :) |
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> It's a known bug in eselect-opengl: |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534128 |
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> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536266 |
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Thanks -- you just saved me a bunch of time -- I just masked off the |
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eselect-opengl version and hopefully this will not happen to me. |
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-- |
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you spend it? |
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