nvidia-glx - glx invalid module format

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 03:12:47PM +1200, Christoph Georgi wrote:
> I just installed a fresh copy of Hoary final and it's great!
> 
> There is still a problem left with the nvidia-glx driver: The system 
> locks hard as soon as the glx driver gets loaded:

This is an upstream driver problem, and you'll need to wait for nVidia
to fix it.

> libglx.so can not be found with '$ modprobe -l | grep libglx' and is not 
> inserted either after the system booted up (what else would one expect). 
> I tried to insert the module manually with '$ insmod libglx.so') and got 
> the good old "Invalid moudule format" error.

libglx.so isn't a kernel module, it's just another part of Xorg.

> On Warty I did never experience the problem and the X log is "fine":
> 
> ---
> chg at daemon:/var/log $ pager XFree86.0.log | grep glx
> (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so
> (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
> ---
> 
> ASAIK the nvidia driver source code can be downloaded for Hoary?! I'll 
> try tonight to compile the driver myself. Maybe it works out this way..

No, the only part you can download is a very small wrapper around the
rest of the binary-only code; nVidia do not release the source to their
proprietary driver.
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