OpenGL is it needed???

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 22:46 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>>>> 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

They're not drivers, they're libraries.


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