Colin J Thomson wrote: > 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, > >From what I can tell, it's just a matter of luck. NVidia puts lib in /usr/lib (or /usr/lib64), while Mesa is in /usr/X11R6/lib, so they actually can coexist, as long as you are configured to search /usr/lib before /usr/X11R6/lib. I'm guessing that's how things are working, but if true, it sucks.
