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07-28-02, 12:27 PM

There seems to be a problem when we install nvidia drivers(2880-2960) and XFree86-static on mandrake.... and possibly on red-hat. some glx functions picks up their symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a wich is a static library and not a dynamic... that's causing programs to crash. Not having XFree86-static solves the problem for now.

N.B.: that happens only if the library has been built on the specific machine, else it will pick the correct one.

07-28-02, 12:27 PM	#1
coyote Guest Posts: n/a	xfree86-static and nvidia drivers There seems to be a problem when we install nvidia drivers(2880-2960) and XFree86-static on mandrake.... and possibly on red-hat. some glx functions picks up their symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a wich is a static library and not a dynamic... that's causing programs to crash. Not having XFree86-static solves the problem for now. N.B.: that happens only if the library has been built on the specific machine, else it will pick the correct one.