..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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