Compiling NVIDIA driver for -ntpl kernel

Christopher A. Williams chrisw01 at privatei.com
Sat Oct 25 15:11:07 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 05:42, Elton Woo wrote:
> On October 25, 2003 03:11 am, Ossama Khayaat , <Ossama Khayaat 
> <ossamak at nht.com.kw>> wrote:
> > > Also, I have found that removing the Mesa-libGL will cause some
> > > dependency issues when using up2date. So be aware that you may need to
> > > uninstall it again after some updates.
> >
> > If I may ask, why do I have to remove this? I've always used the NVIDIA
> > driver, before fedora, and never had a problem.
> If you don't remove the Mesa-libGL, you wont' be able to run the GL
> screensavers. Look over past discussions regarding XFree, Nvidia, and
> these in the list.

Interesting - I was always under the impression that the latest NVidia
installers updated the MesaGL libraries so that they did work with the
GL screen savers.

The only error I have ever seen, even with the RSSS packages, was that
some complained that DRI was not loaded. Since the NVidia drivers don't
like DRI, I assumed this was normal.

Cheers,

Chris


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