nvidia-config-display should manage nvidia libGL enablement

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Oct 27 06:59:40 CET 2009


On 10/27/2009 05:11 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> [I just noticed this reply since I had list delivery disabled.]
>
> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 10:37 +0000, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 10/13/2009 10:29 AM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
>>> Nicolas,
>>>
>>> I'm continuing the discussion from
>>> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=860 here at your request.
>>>
>>> I propose that nvidia-config-display should manage the enablement of the
>>> nvidia libGL along with the X driver, instead of leaving the nvidia
>>> libGL enabled all the time.  This will allow GL programs to work when
>>> the nvidia driver is disabled using another installed GL library, such
>>> as mesa.
>> -1
>>
>> The nvidia GL libs are supposed to be the system libGL,
>
> That makes no sense to me.
It does.

They are 2 different, alternative incarnations of the same, supposed to 
be ABI compatible library, provided by different vendors.

Ralf



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