Tips&Tricks KDE 3.0.1:libGL.so.1.2 problem w/ NVIDIA sol

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lbbros

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Post Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2002 7:40 pm Post subject: KDE 3.0.1 : libGL.so.1.2 problem with NVIDIA solutions

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As some of you may know, if you have NVIDIA drivers installed in kde 3.0.1 you might notice that netscape plugins stop working in Konqueror. Partly is due to a bug that's been fixed in current CVS and a replacement rpm is available on ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...ontrib/texstar/ in the Mandrake 8.2 directory. But in other cases, nspluginviewer and other programs don't work anyway, and if you launch them from console you get

 

Unable to load required library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2! Segmentation fault

 

The fact is that the NVIDIA rpm renamed the library (present in the Mesa package) to avoid conflicts. But how do you make nspluginviewer and the other programs work?

1. In /usr/lib there's a file called libGL.so.1.0.xxx, where xxx is the NVIDIA driver version. It is the NVIDIA equivalent of the libGL.so.1.2 file.

2. as root, cd to /usr/X11R6/lib

3. symlink the file mentioned in step 1 to /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2

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ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.xxx libGL.so.1.2

 

4. Voila'! Now nspluginviewer and the other GL-requiring programs will work!

 

I hope this helps other that were in the same situation as me!

 

 

 

Editor's note: This thread was originally posted at the old MUB (Mandrake User Board at club-nihil). This post is the result of a 99% automatic backup, so due to its nature some text may be lost (improbable but possible).