nvidia-glx - glx invalid module format

[Christoph Georgi]

Why does a old driver work, but a new one not?? I never understood that..

If libglx.so is part of Xorg, is it then not a problem with xorg rather 
then nvidia, esp as the nvidia-glx works great for most people?

What's about the nvidia binaries from their homepage? Wouldn't compiling 
a module out of that work?

thanks
.christoph

Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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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