nvidia driver question

[thedogfarted]

found myself

thedogfarted wrote:
> 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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