OpenGL is it needed???

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 21:37 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 19:42 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>>> Got a question that I thought I'd post here, for the quality of replies
>>>>> <smirk>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got a GeForce 5200 with the livna drivers installed to FC6. I'm
>>>>> running 32bit on an Athlon64 3200+ with 2 gigs of memory. Hell, at least
>>>>> I'm impressed!
>>>>>
>>>>> The question is (hold your breath!) is do I need OpenGL installed???
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running a 3D adventure game (now the truth is known) and it's choppy
>>>>> as hell. I know I got the mojo machine here. I read a post where one guy
>>>>> said that he had installed openGP and it tasked the CPU instead of the
>>>>> GPU. Removing openGL, according to his guy, really cranked up his
>>>>> graphical display significantly, he says.  I have no clue. Would someone
>>>>> clue me in??? I know ole Lonnie has this stuff pegged. I eagerly await
>>>>> the chance to be further educated! Yes, I am also running Beryl. Ric
>>>>
>>>> If you're using the nvidia driver, then you already have OpenGL support.
>>>> You didn't state which game you're playing.
>>>
>>> I just got glest off of the new games section for FC6. Should I remove
>>> the openGL rpms? glest stutters like mad. It has really great graphics,
>>> but I switched off all of the graphical features and it still
>>> stutters... the sound is garbled and the mouse tracks erratically. Ric
>>
>> Specifically which OpenGL RPMs did you install?
>
> [root at iam ~]# rpm -qa |grep mesa
> mesa-libGL-devel-6.5.1-8.fc6
> mesa-libGLw-devel-6.5.1-1.fc6
> mesa-libOSMesa-devel-6.5.1-8.fc6
> mesa-libGLw-6.5.1-1.fc6
> mesa-libGLU-6.5.1-8.fc6
> mesa-libGL-6.5.1-8.fc6
> mesa-libOSMesa-6.5.1-8.fc6
> mesa-source-6.5.1-8.fc6
> mesa-libGLU-devel-6.5.1-8.fc6
>
>
>
> These are the ones that rpm -qa |grep mesa finds.
>
> Glide3-libGL-6.2.1-6.fc6
>
> Got this from rpm -qa |grep GL as well as some of the above again.

Mesa is software OpenGL.  If you installed those RPMs after installing the 
NVIDIA driver, then you overwrote the OpenGL support that the driver 
provides, and you're using software, not hardware acceleration.  You need 
to reinstall the nvidia driver.

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