On Tuesday 23 Nov 2004 12:49, Neal D. Becker wrote: > Alexander Volovics wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:09:54PM +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > >> Am Mo, den 22.11.2004 schrieb Alexander Volovics um 16:35: > >> > Is it still necessary to remove the (xorg-x11) Mesa-libGL and > >> > Mesa-libGLU rpm's before installing the nvidia driver. > >> > >> The NVidia driver package comes with it's own GL libraries. I would > >> physically uninstall the Mesa-libGL RPM and reinstall it with switch > >> "--justdb". So RPM thinks it is installed and you are not annoyed by > >> future RPM actions that the missing package fails in dependency. So did > >> I. > > > > Thanks for the reply. I will use the neat "--justdb" trick too. > > > > Alexander > > But if rpm thinks it's installed, then it will try to install updates. If > you enable automatic nightly yum it will overwrite the NVidia version. > > You can always re-install the NVidia manually to fix this, but it is > annoying. Any better solution welcome. I find this interesting, I have never had to remove *any* libGL rpm to get nvidia's driver to run on my system rh8/fc1/2 and the driver seems to do a good job backing up the original libGL files.. If there is an upgrade to xorg, I usually uninstall nvidia's driver do the update to xorg and resinstall nvidia's driver.. [colinjt@localhost colinjt]$ rpm -qa|grep libGL xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.7.0-10 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.7.0-10 Interested in any views, Colin -- Fedora Core 2, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.9-ck3 KDE-Redhat-3.3.1-4.1.2.kde Registered Linux user number #342953
