Colin J Thomson wrote:
On Tuesday 23 Nov 2004 12:49, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> Alexander Volovics wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:09:54PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I will use the neat "--justdb" trick too.
> >
> > Alexander
>
> But if rpm thinks it's installed, then it will try to install updates.
> If you enable automatic nightly yum it will overwrite the NVidia version.
>
> You can always re-install the NVidia manually to fix this, but it is
> annoying. Any better solution welcome.
I find this interesting, I have never had to remove *any* libGL rpm to get
nvidia's driver to run on my system rh8/fc1/2 and the driver seems to do a
good job backing up the original libGL files..
If there is an upgrade to xorg, I usually uninstall nvidia's driver do the
update to xorg and resinstall nvidia's driver..
[colinjt@localhost colinjt]$ rpm -qa|grep libGL
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.7.0-10
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.7.0-10
Interested in any views,
From what I can tell, it's just a matter of luck. NVidia puts lib
in /usr/lib (or /usr/lib64), while Mesa is in /usr/X11R6/lib, so they
actually can coexist, as long as you are configured to search /usr/lib
before /usr/X11R6/lib. I'm guessing that's how things are working, but if
true, it sucks.