Games doesent work in Fedora test 3

[Mike A. Harris]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Bjorn Andersen wrote:

>The problem was solved. It was the XFree86-Mesa-libGL making
>trouble.  After uninstalling with "rpm -e XFree86-Mesa-libGL
>--nodeps" evrything works fine. And I think that making
>Videogames working under RedHat/Fedora is the ONLY way to get
>Linux out to the masses...

The problem isn't the XFree86-Mesa-libGL package.  The problem is 
Nvidia's packages are horribly packaged and once installed they 
randomly delete files that the OS installed via RPM.  Only 
Nvidia's code doesn't know about the new thread local storage 
stuff, so it doesn't delete the secondary libGL libraries, and 
those libraries get found instead of Nvidia's libGL.  If Nvidia's 
installation was properly implemented to begin with, then Nvidia 
users would not experience these type of problems.

Report this problem to Nvidia and request that they fix their 
installation to not destroy OS installed libraries and files, but 
to do it properly instead, and uninstall the Mesa-libGL package 
automatically so that users don't have to fuss with it 
themselves.


>NO homeuser will ever touch Linux if they cant play!

<personal opinion>

So what?

</personal opinion>



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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat