FC3: Mesa and 'nvidia' driver

[Colin J Thomson]

On Tuesday 23 Nov 2004 14:13, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:01:17PM +0000, Colin J Thomson wrote:
> > > >> > 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.
> >
> > I find this interesting, I have never had to remove *any* libGL rpm to
> > get nvidia's driver to run on my system rh8/fc1/2 and the driver seems to
> > do a good job backing up the original libGL files..
>
> Indeed the nvidia driver install in the past (and presumably now too)
> did(does) a good job of removing/backing up the original libGl files.
>
> But I asked the question because I seem to remember that about
> a year (or longer ?) ago (FC1/FC2) there were problems with this and
> advice was given on the lists to first remove the original libGl files
> first.

You did thats right, but I was curious as to why I had *never* had to remove 
Mesa-libGL, from my early Redhat 8 days and now FC2
For a test today I started from scratch and the nVidia installer never 
complained at all tested with 6111 and 6629.

I will scan the archives on this subj as it interests me.

> (But now I have 'ugly' font rendering with the nv driver on an
>  LCD DVI flatpanel and I would like to see if the nvidia driver does
> any better).

I guess that question is for a new Thread ;)

Cheers,

Colin
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