OpenGL is it needed???

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 22:46 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, do I need these drivers at all? Ric

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