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Old 01-04-2016, 10:28 AM   #16
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Yes, I did select the 32-bit libraries option in the installer.

No, I did not install any Mesa or Xorg packages outside of the traditional Slackware install process.
Even when you do all upgrades as part of the regular package maintenance, you still need to be careful.
For instance, the "Wed Dec 23 05:20:09 UTC 2015" ChangeLog.txt entry shows an update of the mesa package. Every time you update that package or the xorg-server package, you need to re-install the proprietary Nvidia drivers directly afterwards. The mesa and xorg-server will overwrite some of Nvidia's accelerated libraries with un-accelerated versions and this will cause application crashes.
 
Old 01-04-2016, 10:46 AM   #17
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Even when you do all upgrades as part of the regular package maintenance, you still need to be careful.
For instance, the "Wed Dec 23 05:20:09 UTC 2015" ChangeLog.txt entry shows an update of the mesa package. Every time you update that package or the xorg-server package, you need to re-install the proprietary Nvidia drivers directly afterwards. The mesa and xorg-server will overwrite some of Nvidia's accelerated libraries with un-accelerated versions and this will cause application crashes.
Thank you -- I'll try that tonight!
 
Old 01-10-2016, 08:18 PM   #18
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A reinstall of Nvidia driver probably would have resolved this issue at this point.

Closing as Resolved.

In fact, I reinstalled 14.1, updated the kernel for my HW requirements, and installed multilib and then installed nvidia.

Everything is working.
 
  


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