Latest Slackware update (27 Aug. 2010) and Nvidia . . .

Lufbery · 08-29-2010, 05:46 PM

Probably everyone else in the world knows this, but I had to figure it out.

The latest Slackware update includes and update Xorg server. Be aware that if you're using a proprietary video card driver (like Nvidia's for instance), you'll need to reinstall it after the upgrade.

Regards,

clifford227 · 08-29-2010, 06:04 PM

hm thats interesting, I upgraded the xorg packages and restarted, and everything worked as normal, I didnt have to reinstall the Nvidia driver.

sycamorex · 08-29-2010, 06:11 PM

Same here. No problems after the upgrade.

GazL · 08-29-2010, 06:15 PM

Have you tried running glxgears? It's usually the OpenGL library that gets overwritten and causes problems.

I'm in the habit of doing it as a matter of course now whenever I see a Xorg package update.

Lufbery · 08-29-2010, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by GazL

It's usually the OpenGL library that gets overwritten and causes problems.

Bingo! Everything worked well after the update except the games I have that rely on OpenGL and some of the KDE special effects that rely on it too.

After a reinstallation, everything was fine.

ppr:kut · 08-30-2010, 12:46 AM

Benefit for SlackBuild users: no reinstall needed. Just do "nvidia-switch --nvidia" and be happy

mlangdn · 08-30-2010, 02:16 AM

Yep - I noticed this right after the reboot. So I uninstalled, then re-installed.

brianL · 08-30-2010, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Lufbery

Everything worked well after the update except...some of the KDE special effects that rely on it too.

After a reinstallation, everything was fine.

Likewise. Ditto. Me too.

repo · 08-30-2010, 06:13 AM

reinstalled nvidia, and everything worked OK

qweasd · 08-30-2010, 01:54 PM

I used to have NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.31-pkg2.run,
My effects disappeared with the X update. Could not reinstall
because of some bug where it could not find the kernel headers.
So I reinstalled the kernel source with pkgupgrade --reinstall,
and then installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.27-pkg2.run,
which is supposed to the latest, and it glitched like crazy,
so I rolled back to NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-195.36.31-pkg2.run,
and that worked.

Lufbery · 08-30-2010, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ppr:kut

Benefit for SlackBuild users: no reinstall needed. Just do "nvidia-switch --nvidia" and be happy

Ack! I should have thought of that. Oh well, a simple 'upgradepkg --reinstall nvida*.t?z' worked well for me. It installed my regular driver and the 32-compat driver too.

EricTRA · 08-30-2010, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ppr:kut

Benefit for SlackBuild users: no reinstall needed. Just do "nvidia-switch --nvidia" and be happy

Hi,

This and a restart of X did it for me too.

Kind regards,

Eric

masonm · 09-01-2010, 09:19 AM

Yep, broke compositing. A quick reinstall fixed it right up.

Keith Hedger · 10-04-2010, 06:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ppr:kut

Benefit for SlackBuild users: no reinstall needed. Just do "nvidia-switch --nvidia" and be happy

Worked for me just had to kill X by logging out then back in many thanks!