On 27/04/14 17:04, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2014-04-27 11:40 (GMT-0400) James Knott composed:
Dylan wrote:
I'm cleaning out some Nvidia stuff from my computer. The two remaining packages are libdrm_nouveau2 and libdrm_nouveau2-32bit. When I try to remove them, I get a warning that removing them will break dependencies for Mesa. Will this be a problem?
Yes, Mesa is an essential graphics rendering library, x11 depends on it.
Even when there's no longer NVidia video on the system? I first built my current install on an old motherboard that had an NVidia card. I recently moved to a new mom board with built in Intel video. I thought Nouveau was an open source driver for NVidia video.
The dependency can only be according to specification, not reality. Without an NVidia gfxchip in the system, there can be no valid reason to call anything it contains.
Actually, it /might/ be used to poll for the presence of an Nvidia card, for example. It is clearly required for something: I have just forced it's removal in a virtual machine and KDE will not log in (the greeter shows, but after entering the password, the login process starts and then returns to the greeter.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org