FC3: Mesa and 'nvidia' driver

Alexander Volovics awol at home.nl
Mon Nov 22 20:17:26 UTC 2004


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




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