Re: nvidia driver question

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found myself

thedogfarted wrote:
thx! didn't knew the package is in testing packages. One more question - where those nvidia's GL headers are placed (GL.h)?

..switching back to livna's rmp :)

Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 17:54:59 +0200, thedogfarted wrote:


I wonder if i should  install nvidia display driver form nvidia.com
instead of my current driver from livna.



No.


i have now installed following rpms:

nvidia-glx-1.0.4620-0.lvn.18.1
kernel-module-nvidia-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl-1.0.4620-0.lvn.18.1
nvidia-glx-devel-1.0.4620-0.lvn.18.1



Great!


and now i've downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run



Why?


The reason why i want to install is that i still have Mesa's GL header
files in /usr/include. If i remember correctly, nvidia's install
replaced them with their own, and this is what i need.



Eh???


Why they weren't replaced when i installed driver from rpm? Can i safely
just get the nvidia's GL header files and replace the existing ones?



I think you've got a bit mixed up. Forget about the NVidia pkg.run (self extracting archive) files.

The following applies to the Livna package, which Peter Backlund, Dams and
I work on:


1) ... nvidia-glx-devel *is* NVidia's GL headers, try:
   rpm -ql nvidia-glx-devel

2) ... nvidia-glx and XFree86-Mesa-libGL now co-exist on one system
without interference. The nvidia-glx subsystem will be used as the default
GL driver. You do not need to uninstall XFree86-Mesa-libGL now, and indeed
you shouldn't do so.


3) ... The 5336 driver package is also available from Livna, at:
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.testing/

4) ... With reference to "Why they weren't replaced when i installed
driver from rpm?" ... RPM does not replace files from one package, with
files from a different package (unless you force it to with nodeps or
force ... thus breaking the database). That's the whole point of RPM.

If you need more convincing, read:

http://rpm.livna.org/livna-switcher.html

-
Regards,

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