no more glx

please make sure you have the right restricted modules package installed for your kernel. Can you please give me the versions of linux-restrticted-modules and nvidia-glx that are installed at the moment. mine hasnt changed i still have 3d working. can you also attach your /var/log/xorg logs.

Here you go, kernel + modules + nvidia + attachement

 $uname -r
2.6.19-7-generic

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$dpkg -l linux-restricted-modules*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
rc linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-gen 2.6.17.5-11 Non-free Linux 2.6.17 modules on x86_64 generic
rc linux-restricted-modules-2.6.19-5-gene 2.6.19.1-1 Non-free Linux 2.6.19 modules on x86_64 generic
pn linux-restricted-modules-2.6.19-6-386 <none> (no description available)
ii linux-restricted-modules-2.6.19-6-gene 2.6.19.3-1 Non-free Linux 2.6.19 modules on x86_64 generic
ii linux-restricted-modules-2.6.19-7-gene 2.6.19.3-2 Non-free Linux 2.6.19 modules on x86/x86_64
ii linux-restricted-modules-common 2.6.19.3-2 Non-free Linux 2.6.19 modules helper script
ii linux-restricted-modules-generic 2.6.19.2 Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels

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 dpkg -l nvidia-glx*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
ii nvidia-glx 1.0.9629+2.6.19.3-2 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org driver
un nvidia-glx-legacy <none> (no description available)
un nvidia-glx-src <none> (no description available)

try removing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.19-6-generic and nvidia-glx than install nvidia-glx again.the errors you got suggest reinstalling the nvidia drivers but please dont use the --reinstall flag. let me know if that fixes it.

hi john,

thanks for your help.
Actually the reason it did not work is a keyboard-chair error ;).

What happened: nvidia 1.0.9629 is quite broken, see
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=81316

some I installed the beta drivers.

Then, when I upgraded my box, links like:
/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 ...

kept pointing at nvidia 1.0.9742 binaries :s

therefore 3D did not work.

But still, there is a kind of bug here: Should nvidia-glx override the links when it install?
I mean, installing nvidia-glx should have changed the actual libGLcore ... links to point to the newly installed nvidia-glx ,shouldn't it?

Another point too: if 1.0.9629 is broken: should not feisty goes straight to 9742 in the meantime.

well, i guess this bug is closed and some other should be filed :)

the bug appeared because I installed nvidia-glx 1.0.742.
Not because of ubuntu package
sorry for that fake alert ;)