On 29/07/13 18:38, András Csányi wrote:
Hi All,
I would like to some clarification to support my feeling regarding
gallium related use flags in mesa package.
For some reason I have to rebuild a few packages on my machine and
xorg-server and mesa are among them. I experienced that if the "xorg"
USE flag of mesa is enabled then I got compiling error. After a little
searching I could see that this use flag enables gallium3d.
My question is that, as a nvidia user - I have an nvidia card and I
use a nvidia driver from nvidia-drivers package - do I need this use
flag? Do I need the gallium related use flags in mesa?
I have "gallium" enabled and am also using nvidia-drivers. It doesn't do
anything when running those drivers though. What it can do though is
provide software OpenGL rendering, in case you need a fallback.
In any event, it doesn't conflict with nvidia-drivers, since it's not
used if you did:
eselect opengl nvidia
(Which I assume you did, since otherwise you wouldn't have 3D support
with the nvidia drivers.)
