OpenGL is it needed???

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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

No, I didn't know what you mean, because you clearly didn't know what you 
meant.  If you knew the difference then you would have understood the 
implications of overwrtiting the OpenGL libraries that the driver provides 
with Mesa.  So please don't get indignant with me when you clearly have no 
clue what you're doing.

Now to answer your latest question, you likely don't need any of the Mesa 
libraries unless you're doing some kind of OpenGL development (which 
includes building software which requires OpenGL libraries).

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