Compiling NVIDIA driver for -ntpl kernel

Ossama Khayaat ossamak at nht.com.kw
Sat Oct 25 07:11:07 UTC 2003


> -----Original Message-----
[SNIP]
> From: Marc Schwartz [mailto:MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com]
> Don't forget to remove the Mesa-LibGL rpm before doing that.
> 
> Use:
> 
> rpm -e --nodeps XFree86-Mesa-libGL
> 
> You will need to do that before running both of the NVidia install
> processes and will need to repeat that when there are XFree86 and
kernel
> updates.
> 
> Also, I have found that removing the Mesa-libGL will cause some
> dependency issues when using up2date. So be aware that you may need to
> uninstall it again after some updates.

If I may ask, why do I have to remove this? I've always used the NVIDIA
driver, before fedora, and never had a problem.

Thanks

Ossama





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