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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