[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and revdep-rebuild problems

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and revdep-rebuild problems

[billydw]

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From: billydw <billydw@insightbb.com>
To: billydw@insightbb.com
Subject: nvidia-drivers and revdep-rebuild problems
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:03:42 -0500
Message-ID: <44C38FCE.8050504@insightbb.com>

Hi, all.

I try to avoid posting to the list as I try to resolve problems on my own.
However, I have run into this problem that I can't get resolved.  I am 
pretty much a Gentoo newbie, but less so with linux.

I have successfully installed Gentoo 2006.0  from the  Universal Install 
CD (amd64 arch).  I am have  Xorg-x11 7.0 emerged and, I think, 
configured correctly - no unresolved EEs or WWs in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  
Using "startx" brings up twm and it looks fine.

Regarding the nvidia-drivers, I first emerged nvidia-glx and 
nvidia-kernel.  While running # revdep-rebuild, I get this message:

  broken /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.1.0.8756   \
  (requires libGLcore.so.1 libX11.so.6 libXext.so.6 libnvidia-tls.so.1)

After running # eselect opengl set nvidia, revdep-rebuild produces this:

 broken /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.1.0.8756  \
 (requires libX11.so.6 libXext.so.6)

I found when I removed nvidia (# emerge -C nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel) and 
rerun # revdep-rebuild, the output is clean - all linking consistent.

As an experiment, I emerged the new nvidia-drivers (using keyword 
~amd64).  running # revdep-rebuild resulted in the same "broken" output 
as the first one above.

I followed the migrating to modular x guide and the nvidia guide.  I 
have checked the gentoo wiki and even tried googling for the solution, 
but have been unable to find the solution.

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Bill W.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and revdep-rebuild problems

[Philip Webb]

060723 billydw wrote:
> I am pretty much a Gentoo newbie, but less so with linux.
> I have successfully installed Gentoo 2006.0
> from the  Universal Install CD (amd64 arch).
> I have Xorg-x11 7.0 emerged and I think configured correctly -
> no unresolved EEs or WWs in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  
> Using "startx" brings up twm and it looks fine.
> I first emerged nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel.
> While running # revdep-rebuild, I get this message:

It's not clear what your problem is: what is it which is not working ?
If it's only that you're getting messages re running Revdep-rebuild
& given that you're a newcomer to Gentoo, the answer is probably simply
that R-r is an imperfect tool & more often than not cb ignored.
Sometimes the emerge output warns you to run R-r, but when you do
-- with '--pretend' -- , it simply wants to remerge the same package !
So if nothing is noticeably wrong, just ignore the R-r warnings.

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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and revdep-rebuild problems

[Richard Fish]

On 7/23/06, billydw <billydw@insightbb.com> wrote:
> Regarding the nvidia-drivers, I first emerged nvidia-glx and
> nvidia-kernel.  While running # revdep-rebuild, I get this message:
>
>   broken /usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.1.0.8756   \
>   (requires libGLcore.so.1 libX11.so.6 libXext.so.6 libnvidia-tls.so.1)

Have you installed app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs?  These are the
32-bit compatible x11 libraries which would be necessary for the
32-bit nvidia libraries.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and revdep-rebuild problems

[gentoo]

On Monday 24 July 2006 00:41, Philip Webb wrote:
> 060723 billydw wrote:
> > I am pretty much a Gentoo newbie, but less so with linux.
> > I have successfully installed Gentoo 2006.0
> > from the  Universal Install CD (amd64 arch).
> > I have Xorg-x11 7.0 emerged and I think configured correctly -
> > no unresolved EEs or WWs in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
> > Using "startx" brings up twm and it looks fine.
> > I first emerged nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel.
> > While running # revdep-rebuild, I get this message:
>
For the Nvidia card I have I had to go to Nidiias web site and download the 
driver from there to get it to work. after I ran the file from Nvidia mt Card 
works fine even in dual mode ( tv , CRT).



rob
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Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers and revdep-rebuild problems

[billyd]

> On Monday 24 July 2006 00:41, Philip Webb wrote:
> > 060723 billydw wrote:
> > > I am pretty much a Gentoo newbie, but less so with linux.
> > > I have successfully installed Gentoo 2006.0
> > > from the  Universal Install CD (amd64 arch).
> > > I have Xorg-x11 7.0 emerged and I think configured correctly -
> > > no unresolved EEs or WWs in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
> > > Using "startx" brings up twm and it looks fine.
> > > I first emerged nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel.
> > > While running # revdep-rebuild, I get this message:
>
> For the Nvidia card I have I had to go to Nidiias web site and download the
> driver from there to get it to work. after I ran the file from Nvidia mt
> Card works fine even in dual mode ( tv , CRT).
>
>
>
> rob
Thanks to all those who tried to help with this issue.  Being kind of a Gentoo 
newbie and not a programmer or developer, I am not sure what the problem 
could be.  I have tried this on two different computers and always get the 
same result.  Since everything seems to work except for the recurring 
revdep-rebuild issue, I am choosing to ignore it at this time.  

I did look into the drivers on the nVidia web site per rob's suggestion.  The 
extensive install notes showed me a possible solution.  It involves checking 
for conflicting libraries and/or symlinks.  Sounds like it could be what I am 
experiencing.  I will experiment with that although I am not sure I will know 
what I am doing.  No matter though.  I am retired and am experimenting with 
Genoo on "testing" machines, so it doesn't really matter if I break 
something.  I have learned a lot about Gentoo this way and I am getting 
better with it.

I was thinking someone else may have experienced the same problem and had 
found the solution.

Thanks, all!  I will keep my eyes on the gentoo-user list.  If I succeed in 
solving this issue, I will let you all know.

Bill
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