Donn Washburn wrote:
> Sorry about the length
> 
> Anders Gidenstam wrote:
>> Shouldn't libGL be from the NVidia package and not from Mesa for 3d 
>> acceleration to work?
>>
>> One way to check that your libGL.so is the NVidia one is to search 
>> for 'nvidia' in the libGL.so binary: (Note that on your system the file 
>> could live in a different directory than /usr/lib - use locate)
>>
>> % strings /usr/lib/libGL.so|grep nvidia
>> ...
>> nvidia id: NVIDIA OpenGL Shared Library  1.0-8762  Mon May 15 13:40:07 PDT 
>> 2006
>> ...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Anders
> Interesting find!
> locate /usr/lib/libGL.so gives
> /usr/lib/libGL.so
> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.9746
> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.5.060502
> 
> l /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 shows
> libGL.so.1.5.060502 as the link
> 
> I think the /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.9746 one is from the NVidia driver.run
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run.  Which I believe to be the current 
> available one at nvidia.com
> 
>
You possibly updated Mesa after installing the NVIDIA driver, otherwise 
ldconfig would have sorted out the correct symlink.
  # l /usr/lib/libGL.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    653 2007-02-27 05:06 /usr/lib/libGL.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     10 2007-02-27 05:06 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> 
libGL.so.1*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     17 2007-02-27 05:06 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> 
libGL.so.1.0.9746*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 601272 2007-02-27 05:06 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.9746*

Regards
Sid.

-- 
Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support 
Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
_______________________________________________
Flightgear-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users

Reply via email to