Thanks, that was it! I'm learning ... slowly. Now to tackle UT2004
8-)
Mike Howarth mikeh07@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Kevin Freeman <kfreem02@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 10:34 -0500, Mike H wrote:
>> I reinstalled the Nvidia drivers and it corrected it and now I get:
>> glxgears
>> 18805 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3761.000 FPS
>> 17185 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3437.000 FPS
>> 18212 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3642.400 FPS
>> 18206 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3641.200 FPS
>> 18206 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3641.200 FPS
>> 18208 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3641.600 FPS
>> 18215 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3643.000 FPS
>> 18194 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3638.800 FPS
>> 18209 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3641.800 FPS
>> 20407 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4081.400 FPS
>> etc. etc.
>> The question now is what happened to corrupt the installation of the same Nvidia drivers???? I haven't installed anything but automatic updates from the fedora-redhat. The Nvidia installer said they had been changed, when it was uninstalling them.
>
>The recent xorg-x11 update probably "broke" your nvidia install. Since
>nvidia refuses to use an RPM-based installer (they claim it is "too
>complicated") you have to reinstall the nvidia driver after every xorg-
>x11 update. The nvidia driver replaces xorg-x11 libGL files, but
>without corresponding entries in the RPM database the RPM system has no
>way of preventing the driver from being overwritten on updates.
>
>Kevin Freeman
>
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