[elrepo] NVIDIA and RHEL 6.5 issue (libglamoregl)

[Rob Mokkink]

I have some system freezes with the upgrade to centos 6.5 on my laptop with nvidia optimus.

Could it be glamour?

Michael Lampe <mlampe0 at googlemail.com> schreef:
>Michael Lampe wrote:
>> Phil Perry wrote:
>>
>>> [root at rhel6b64 ~]# /usr/sbin/lsof | grep X | grep libGL
>>> X         1970      root  mem       REG                9,1  1165272
>>> 797319 /usr/lib64/nvidia/libGL.so.331.20
>>>
>>>
>>> I see this on RHEL6.5 with glamoregl loaded. If I disable glamor
>then
>>> libGL is no longer loaded into the X process.
>>
>> That's then the unsupported use case. Maybe it's not a problem,
>because
>> actually Nvidia's driver doesn't use glamor, so libGL is just loaded
>> into the X server doing nothing.
>
>shared libs tend to have constructor and destructor functions, so 
>probably more than nothing happens:
>
>http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/miscellaneous.html#INIT-AND-CLEANUP
>
>Anyway, thanks for pointing this out.
>
>If you have an Nvidia card, at best glamor doesn't hurt. If you have an
>
>Nvidia card and something else that uses glamor, it won't work. And if 
>you don't have an Nvidia card it doesn't matter. To me this clearly 
>translates into "Conflicts: ..."
>
>I have removed glamor already yesterday. :)
>
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