nvidia driver question

[thedogfarted]

thx! didn't knew the package is in testing packages. One more question - 
where those nvidia's GL headers are placed (GL.h)?

..switching back to livna's rmp :)

Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 17:54:59 +0200, thedogfarted wrote:
> 
> 
>>I wonder if i should  install nvidia display driver form nvidia.com
>>instead of my current driver from livna.
> 
> 
> No.
> 
> 
>>i have now installed following rpms:
>>
>>nvidia-glx-1.0.4620-0.lvn.18.1
>>kernel-module-nvidia-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl-1.0.4620-0.lvn.18.1
>>nvidia-glx-devel-1.0.4620-0.lvn.18.1
> 
> 
> Great!
> 
> 
>>and now i've downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
> 
> 
> Why?
> 
> 
>>The reason why i want to install is that i still have Mesa's GL header
>>files in /usr/include. If i remember correctly, nvidia's install
>>replaced them with their own, and this is what i need.
> 
> 
> Eh???
> 
> 
>>Why they weren't replaced when i installed driver from rpm? Can i safely
>>just get the nvidia's GL header files and replace the existing ones?
> 
> 
> I think you've got a bit mixed up. Forget about the NVidia pkg.run (self
> extracting archive) files.
> 
> The following applies to the Livna package, which Peter Backlund, Dams and
> I work on:
> 
> 1) ... nvidia-glx-devel *is* NVidia's GL headers, try:
>    rpm -ql nvidia-glx-devel
> 
> 2) ... nvidia-glx and XFree86-Mesa-libGL now co-exist on one system
> without interference. The nvidia-glx subsystem will be used as the default
> GL driver. You do not need to uninstall XFree86-Mesa-libGL now, and indeed
> you shouldn't do so.
> 
> 3) ... The 5336 driver package is also available from Livna, at:
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.testing/
> 
> 4) ... With reference to "Why they weren't replaced when i installed
> driver from rpm?" ... RPM does not replace files from one package, with
> files from a different package (unless you force it to with nodeps or
> force ... thus breaking the database). That's the whole point of RPM.
> 
> If you need more convincing, read:
> 
> http://rpm.livna.org/livna-switcher.html
> 
> -
> Regards,
> 
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