Installation of 180.18 breaks Wine/OpenGL (Ubuntu x64)

[Zakhar]

Hello,

I just installed the 180.18 driver on my Ubuntu 8.10 x64 (Intrepid Ibex).

It is fine because it fixes a graphical bug I had on title bars going grey (known bug of 177 on some serie 7 & 8 cards).

But the nVidia installer breaks Wine on my Ubuntu system.

I know you said on the closed post about installation that it's hard to keep track of all systems, but here is what happens.

On a x64 Ubuntu system you have 3 lib directories :
/usr/lib (standard stuff on all Linux)
/usr/lib64 (just a bunch of symbolic links to libraries in /usr/lib)
/usr/lib32 (contains 32 bits libraries because some programs need them !)

Namely Wine is still a 32 bits program, even on 64 bits systems.
And I suspect so on every distro !

So during the installation process :
- The script detect outdated modules and libraries
- Removes the outdated stuff
- Build the 64bits modules and libraries
- Copy them in the right place

So basically after the process whe don't have any more 32 bits libraries for 32 bits programs.
... and remember: Wine is mainly used for games, and nVidia is making its money with that

If I had a PC only for office work and enjoy Compiz effect, a basic Intel chip is fair enough !

To be a little bit more helpful now, when I launch OpenGL Games (WoW, Warcraft 3) I get:

err:module:load_builtin_dll failed to load .so lib for builtin L"OPENGL32.dll": libGL.so.1

After comparing with my laptop, this one stayed with standard Ubuntu 177 driver as I have no Compiz graphical bug, I notice 3 missing libraries (so far)

/usr/lib32/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib32/libGLcore.so.1
/usr/lib32/libnvidia-tls.so.1

These libraries should be symbolic links and point to the relevant version of nVidia libraries:

libGL.so.180.18
libGLCore.so.180.18
libnvidia-tls.so.180.18

Of course these libraries have to be 32bits models, but the installer doesn't make them.


What I tried:
- put the 64 bits libraries instead: as expected I got an error saying that wine do no accept 64 bits libraries
- put the 177.80 32 bits libraries (as in Ubuntu repository): the loading error is gone but of course I get a segmentation error.

What I'm going to do:
- I'm going to install a 32bit Intrepid (thanks Wubi !) upgrade to the 180.18 driver, this should install the 32 bits libraries so that I can get them for my 64bits box.
I just hope the 32 bits libraries built on a 32bits system and the 32 bits libraries we have on native 64 are the same ones !


What should be done by nVidia installer:
- build as well 32bits libraries
- put them back where there belong !


If you have any advise on how to make it work smoothly, I'm ready to take them.

I'll keep you posted on my last test (32 bits versions of drivers).

[jeisom]

Sounds like you used the wrong installer. You need pkg2 installer which installs
32bit compatible libraries.

[Zakhar]

Well... I do need the 64 bits libraries !

... as my system is 64 bits.

But I also need 32 bits libraries.

Do you say pkg2 will install both sorts of libraries ?

You are right the documentation about which package to download is very very confuse, and I tried package 1.

To check what you suggested, I'll just switch my Wubi, start in 64 and try the other package. (Wubi rocks !)

[Dragoran]

Originally Posted by Zakhar

Well... I do need the 64 bits libraries !

... as my system is 64 bits.

But I also need 32 bits libraries.

Do you say pkg2 will install both sorts of libraries ?

yes the installer will ask whether you want to 32bit compatibility libraries.

[Zakhar]

Wonderful job guys !

It works ==> Solved

Thanks for your so quick answer and have a happy new year's eve days !

P.S.: if I may, on the Readme about x64 driver, if you changed the example to pkg2, it would be better