OpenGL is it needed???

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 11:02 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

Jesus, Lonnie, you know what I mean. Do I need *these* or conversely
*any* of *these* at all? I'm gonna put Bill Clinton on you, so we can
define *is* as well. :) Ric