Re: [opensuse] Re: kde used nvidia drivers? [Sorta SOLVED]

On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 15:47 +0200, Philipp Thomas wrote:

On Sat, 07 May 2011 02:10:35 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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Which is for the server, or a client app, or for a specific card, or a general software implementation is a bit unclear to me. I need to investigate so I can decide what I did wrong in terms of mixing RPMs.

It's much simpler. Mesa installs the library where it should and that's the standard library directory lib or lib64. Nvidia installs in the old X11 directory /usr/X11R6/lib. That is in this case fortunate as the two packages don't overwrite each other which would otherwise lead to conflicting packages.

As long as they are present the nvidia libraries override the mesa ones.

That seems backward from what you wrote in the previous paragraph. If /usr/lib is the preferred, and Mesa installed there, wouldn't the preferred get loaded first? The nvidia in the old less preferred /usr/X11R6/lib would get loaded if the preferred did not exist. Or do you mean that the preferred is not the first choice when loading? Just when I thought I was understanding this... -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 SHAW'S PRINCIPAL Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org