Compiling NVIDIA driver for -ntpl kernel

Christopher A. Williams chrisw01 at privatei.com
Wed Oct 29 01:29:01 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 11:11, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Because Nvidia's driver installation just blows away the 
> installed libGL libraries from XFree86-Mesa-libGL, and that just 
> happened to work randomly before.  That was NEVER the proper way 
> to handle it.
> 
> Now, we provide multiple libGL libraries, and Nvidia's installer 
> doesn't know about them, so it doesn't delete them all.  As such, 
> when you run OpenGL applications, the dynamic linker will use the 
> first libGL found, and that is the TLS i686 libGL, not Nvidias.
> 
> I've contacted Nvidia privately in order to try to come up with a 
> long term solution with them that is beneficial for everyone, and 
> isn't an ugly hack or deleting random OS provided files.  They've 
> responded and are interested in working to find a solution.
> 
> So, at some point in the future, these problems will hopefully be 
> moot.

This is excellent news! Getting NVidia to have their drivers "play nice"
with the rest of Fedora would be a wonderful thing indeed.

Tell them I said to hurry up and get on with it...! <grin>

Cheers,

Chris

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