FC3: Mesa and 'nvidia' driver

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 22.11.2004 schrieb Alexander Volovics um 16:35:

> Is it still necessary to remove the (xorg-x11) Mesa-libGL and
> Mesa-libGLU rpm's before installing the nvidia driver.
> 
> Alexander

IMHO yes, but just the Mesa-libGL, not the other package.

$ rpm -ql xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      17 20. Nov 05:08 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 ->
libGL.so.1.0.6111
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  453728 20. Nov 05:08 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.6111

The NVidia driver package comes with it's own GL libraries. I would
physically uninstall the Mesa-libGL RPM and reinstall it with switch
"--justdb". So RPM thinks it is installed and you are not annoyed by
future RPM actions that the missing package fails in dependency. So did
I.

Alexander


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