nvidia driver question

Daniel Stonier snorri_dj at operamail.com
Mon Mar 1 06:21:52 UTC 2004


There's a detailed explanation of the redhat/nvidia state of affairs atm at

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list/cgi?buglist=110124

If that fails, just do a google for "redhat bugzilla nvidia".

Cheers,
Daniel.

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 17:54:59 +0200, thedogfarted <thedogfarted at inbox.lv> 
wrote:

> I wonder if i should  install nvidia display driver form nvidia.com 
> instead of my current driver from livna.
>
> 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
>
> and now i've downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
>



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