Xfree GL still does not coexist with the nVidia drivers

[ByteEnable]

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 08:25, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Nils Philippsen 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.
> 
> Whatever path is found first is what I believe ld.so uses.  
> Another option would be for them to put it in a different path
> and use LD_PRELOAD in a shell script perhaps, and also put their
> X modules in a different path, and use ModulePath in the X server 
> config file.
> 
> The LD_PRELOAD is not necessarily the cleanest possible solution, 
> but it is an alternative at least.  People are free to suggest 
> other solutions.
> 

Is there an official channel at RedHat to contact Nvidia through?  I'm
just wondering if they are doing these install's because they dont know
better and need education or they have found other issue's that force
them to install the way they do.

Byte