FC2 and UT

Kevin Freeman kfreem02 at comcast.net
Sun Dec 12 19:39:33 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 10:34 -0500, Mike H wrote:
> I reinstalled the Nvidia drivers and it corrected it and now I get:
> glxgears
> 18805 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3761.000 FPS
> 17185 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3437.000 FPS
> 18212 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3642.400 FPS
> 18206 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3641.200 FPS
> 18206 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3641.200 FPS
> 18208 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3641.600 FPS
> 18215 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3643.000 FPS
> 18194 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3638.800 FPS
> 18209 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3641.800 FPS
> 20407 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4081.400 FPS
> etc. etc.
> The question now is what happened to corrupt the installation of the same Nvidia drivers????   I haven't installed anything but automatic updates from the fedora-redhat.  The Nvidia installer said they had been changed, when it was uninstalling them.

The recent xorg-x11 update probably "broke" your nvidia install.  Since
nvidia refuses to use an RPM-based installer (they claim it is "too
complicated") you have to reinstall the nvidia driver after every xorg-
x11 update.  The nvidia driver replaces xorg-x11 libGL files, but
without corresponding entries in the RPM database the RPM system has no
way of preventing the driver from being overwritten on updates.

Kevin Freeman 




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