Compiling NVIDIA driver for -ntpl kernel

joe joe at tmsusa.com
Tue Jan 13 04:34:22 UTC 2004


Elton Woo wrote:

>Newbie (and perhaps stupid) question: is there a way to remove the
>nVidia GL, so that one can keep the Mesa ones? ... Or am I obliged to
>continually remove the latter? As it stands, there two steps necessary
>whenever I get rawhide updates: 
>1) re-run the nVidia installer whenever the kernel is updated
>2) remove using --nodeps whenever XFree is updated (since I can't
>update without including the Mesa-libGL package...
>
>... or am I asking the impossible / unreasonable?
>  
>
Sure, if you'd rather do software rendering with mesa, just uninstall 
the nvidia drivers and reinstall mesa-gl.

I dunno though, let's see, mesa-gl = 0.1 fps for q3a, nvidia = 100 fps 
for q3a...

I think I'll go with the nvidia gl, and that is my final answer!

Joe
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