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, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Keith G. Robertson-Turner nvidia-devel[AT]genesis-x.nildram.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFARBEP2XoLj+pGfn8RAkDyAJ9ggRKHaAGvqJH2jRnYWv9+1dVjtQCePKIi X3xgWvXnJ0aAjW2D7xv2ClM= =lAsY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
