On 6/27/06, Vladimir A. Pavlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But what if I'm going to use NVIDIA binary driver from nvidia.com? Do I still need Mesalib for something?
I can't recall all of what comes with the NVIDIA OpenGL implementation, but I think you need Mesa to provide GLX in addition to libGL. Actually, that's not true. I'm pretty sure NVIDIA provides GLX, too. I'd read the NVIDIA release notes. It probably provides more details about this.
As I understood from your letter NVIDIA driver "replaces" the Mesa libraries installed so there isn't a reason to use Mesalib. Am I correct?
You might be able to pull it off if you install the NVIDIA libGL and all it's headers. I've never tried it, and I don't think any of the distros do it, either. You definitely need the headers from NVIDIA if you're not going to install Mesa or nothing will be able to link to libGL or GLX. Let me know how it goes. If you do install both, beware that there will be duplicate files at /usr/lib/libGL.* and /usr/include/GL/*. Also, if you ever want to install Xgl, it needs Mesa around. And if you ever use a non-NVIDIA card, you'll need Mesa. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
