> Admittedly I haven't tried in a while but I was well aware of the RPMs > at livna however the problem is that we run several proprietary > applications (Softimage XSI, Maya etc) which make all manor of > assumptions about what libraries are where. IIRC livna essentially > places the libs in a separate location and adds that to the ld.so.conf > file in a system friendly manner, unlike the NVidia installer which > backs up your existing GL libs and replaces them with its own. Yes, that is essentially what the livna rpm does. I think it does a little more than that, some service now runs at boot up which dynamically enables the nvidia libraries + xorg.conf on the fly, so if for instance for some reason the kernel mod isn't available at boot time the fallback nv driver works as expected. > XSI and > Maya don't care and will simply use the default which leads to a segfault. by the by, but sounds like these apps make some assumptions they shouldn't... They should respect the ld.so.conf changes... Chris
