[ATrpms-users] Dropping multiple nvidia coinstalled drivers? (was: New Nvidia official drivers)

[auric]

On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 22:34 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote: 
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 09:24:43PM +1000, auric wrote:
> > Means the current method of having multiple nvidia drivers installed and
> > selecting between then via sym link won't work any longer.
> 
> Hm, that's not nice. But OTOH the driver releases have been more
> stable in the last years, and downgrading to a previous driver isn't
> that difficult anymore either due to yum/smart/apt improvements in
> this time.
> 
> So maybe its time to drop the multiple drivers. (The concurrent
> installs of them that is)
> 
> Thoughts anyone?

As a FYI.

I just tested the following structure which works OK.
In /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      29 2010-04-06 20:40 nvidia-190.53_drv.so ->
nvidia-graphics-190.53_drv.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      32 2010-04-06 20:40 nvidia-195.36.15_drv.so
-> nvidia-graphics-195.36.15_drv.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      32 2010-04-06 20:40 nvidia_drv.so ->
nvidia-graphics-195.36.15_drv.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4287708 2010-01-03 13:31
nvidia-graphics-190.53_drv.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5278272 2010-03-28 02:02
nvidia-graphics-195.36.15_drv.so

i.e.
change nvidia-graphics-190.53/nvidia_drv.so to
nvidia-graphics-190.53_drv.so
change nvidia-graphics-195.36.15/nvidia_drv.so to
nvidia-graphics-195.36.15_drv.so
and ln "the one to use" to nvidia_drv.so

Auric.
(as this works would indicate it is indeed looking in sub-dirs)