On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:01:17PM +0000, Colin J Thomson wrote: > > >> > 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. > 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.. Indeed the nvidia driver install in the past (and presumably now too) did(does) a good job of removing/backing up the original libGl files. But I asked the question because I seem to remember that about a year (or longer ?) ago (FC1/FC2) there were problems with this and advice was given on the lists to first remove the original libGl files first. I can't remember what caused the problem but I can remember a lot of discussion about this and Mike Harris was discussing packaging the Fedora file so that the problem wouldn't occur anymore. I can't remember what happened after that and I stopped using the nvidia driver because the nv driver was good enough for my purposes. (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). Alexander
