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nvidia-graphics-drivers for Ubuntu
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Welcome to the Ubuntu NVIDIA packages. This document has notes on the
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X Server and GL libraries of the NVIDIA driver offering.
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A Note about Thread Local Storage (TLS):
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Under 2.6.x kernels a new TLS method is used and different libraries are
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required. NVIDIA provides these libraries and at boot time (via
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/etc/init.d/nvidia-glx) a test is performed on your system to see if
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your require these extra libraries. Having the TLS libraries installed
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(in /usr/lib/tls and libglx.so) running under a 2.4.x kernel will cause
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problems when running GL applications. Likewise, not having these libraries
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installed under 2.6.x might prevent X from starting at all.
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To switch back and forth between the two systems simply run:
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/etc/init.d/nvidia-glx start
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This is run automatically at boot time.
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To force a certain setting (e.g. you may have a 2.4 kernel patched for
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NPTL) place USE_TLS=1 in /etc/defaults/nvidia-glx for using the nvidia tls
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libraries. USE_TLS=0 for not using tls libraries. This isn't normally
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necessary for most users.
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Symlinks are created in /usr/lib/tls from libraries installed in
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For any news on this package check http://people.debian.org/~rdonald and
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http://bugs.debian.org/nvidia-glx
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NOTES ABOUT GLX DRIVER AND OPENGL:
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Using the nvidia X driver requires some user modification.
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First, modify your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
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Change Driver "nv" to Driver "nvidia"
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See /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.gz and
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/usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/examples/XF86Config.sample.gz
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for descriptions of all supported options.
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Appendix F: CONFIGURING AGP is an important section.
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Note about OpenGL headers: The header files are not installed to
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/usr/include/GL but to /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-dev/include/GL.
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This allows use of and not overwriting of the
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preinstalled headers (e.g. xlibmesa-dev). If you wish to use the NVIDIA
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supplied headers (e.g. you require NVIDIA GL extensions) you must copy them to
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/usr/include/GL yourself or include /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-dev/include in
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your includes path when compiling.
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Also note all users using GLX must be in group video. (i.e. adduser <user>
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-- Randall Donald <rdonald@debian.org>, Mon, 31 Mar 2003 23:40:05 -0800
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