Xfree GL still does not coexist with the nVidia drivers

[Nils Philippsen]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 22:42, Elton Woo wrote:
> XFree86-Mesa-libGL had to be removed using the --nodeps flag.
> Before installing the nVidia drivers with Fedora Core Test 3, the 
> GL screensavers ran with no problems, but I had to install the
> dirvers to counteract the jittery mouse pointer in TuxRacer.
> Then, to re-enable the GL screen-savers, I had to remove XFree GL
> 
> version: XFree86-4.3.0-40

My (completely uninformed) opinion on this is that it's a packaging bug
on Nvidia's behalf -- they should put their libraries into e.g.
/usr/local/lib/nvidia and list this path in /etc/ld.so.conf instead of
overwriting the installed libraries.

Nils
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