>-----Original Message-----
>From: Simon Geard <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 6:31 am
>Subject: Re: Qt-4.7.0 and opengl

>On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 15:58 -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> Okay many thanks, I just thought the nvidia drivers would replace
mesa.

>Sort of. If you install the binaries, they do provide their own OpenGL
>libraries, overwriting some of the Mesa ones. But I think (and I may be
>wrong) that you can't run the binaries against an X server that hasn't
>been built with OpenGL support, and *that* means building against Mesa.

Ok. Would it be a good idea to mention this in the BLFS book under
Xorg-Server?  It does say that Mesa is required for DRI(not needed for
nvidia driver), but not that its needed for any OpenGL.

thanks

MAC




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