On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 10:00:15PM -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Alexander Volovics wrote: I am back after having been "off the air" for 4 days due to my ISP's yearly major mishap and have just finished scanning the more than 2000 accumulated emails. Whew! > >>>>>>Is it still necessary to remove the (xorg-x11) Mesa-libGL and > >>>>>>Mesa-libGLU rpm's before installing the nvidia driver. > The technical answer here is that the nVidia GL libraries are put in > /usr/lib, and the Mesa-libGL library is put in /usr/X11R6/lib (like Neal > eluded to, though its *not* supposed to be a matter or luck!). The > trick is to ensure that your ld.so.conf file looks in /usr/lib before it > looks in /usr/X11R6/lib. You can tell by looking at the ldd output of > some GL X11 program (like glxgears). If it links to the nVidia library > in /usr/lib, you've done it right. If not, you may need to re-order the > libraries in your /etc/ld.so.conf file. > If the libary order is correct, then all that *should* be needed is to > run ldconfig after each installation of the nVidia modules. ......................cut to keep it short........................... > I know that on my measley MX-400 video card, I see about 46-48 fps when > my libraries are mis-configured, and about 92-96 fps when I "clean > things up". That's nowheres near the 300-400 fps I think I should be > getting with this card at 4x AGP? You describe the situation well. I installed and tried it out with and without the xorg mesa-libgl library. Both work but eventually I removed the nvidia driver again for reasons given below. > >(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). > Is the font rendering the driver's fault, or the font server's > configuration's fault? My font rendering didn't change when I switched > from the "nv" driver to the "nvidia" driver. My font rendering didn't improve noticeably either, with or without additional nvidia parameters. So I removed the nvidia driver because I don't need 3d extensions and don't like reinstalling the nvidia driver with each kernel update. I managed to improve my 'ugly' font rendering by choosing the 'best' of the available rendering options and fiddling with the LCD panel settings. I can live with the results. Alexander > -- > Kevin J. Cummings > kjchome@xxxxxxx > cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
