Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers?
I followed this step by step. Still getting very poor performance.
Romain Lerallut wrote:
>
> You need to remove the libGL* files installed by mesa and to re-install
> the nvidia drivers that provide accelerated libGL*
>
> For more (any and all) info check the
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Nvidia-OpenGL-Configuration/index.html
>
> it says basically:
> install XFree 4
> install Mesa (apt-get)
> remove mesa's libGL (be careful there are libGL* and libGL.*)
> install Nvidia (make)
>
> HTH
> Romain
>
> --
> Tuxracer rules!
>
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote:
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> > Bartosz Bobrek wrote:
> > >
> > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster
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> You need to remove the libGL* files installed by mesa and to re-install
> the nvidia drivers that provide accelerated libGL*
>
> For more (any and all) info check the
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Nvidia-OpenGL-Configuration/index.html
>
> it says basically:
> install XFree 4
> install Mesa (apt-get)
> remove mesa's libGL (be careful there are libGL* and libGL.*)
> install Nvidia (make)
>
> HTH
> Romain
>
> --
> Tuxracer rules!
>
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote:
>
> > Bartosz Bobrek wrote:
> > >
> > > "Dr. Aldo Medina" wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm using a Gigabyte 6XOM7E-1 Mobo with a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster
> > > > Riva TNT. Debian 2.2r2 testing. I just installed the nvidia 0.9-6 from
> > > > tarball. I followed the instructions in NVIDIA_Linux.html, including
> > > > renaming /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a,
> > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a, /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so* and
> > > > libGLcore.so*. I didn't had any /usr/lib/libGL.so file. When I tried
> > > > xscreen-demo GL savers, the speed was very slow, so I tried searching
> > > > for Mesa* files and I renamed libMesaGL.so.3 and libMesaGLU.so.3. I made
> > > > a symlink from libMesaGL to /usr/lib/libGL.so.1, and from libMesaGLU.
> > > > Now when I try GL savers, I get a shared library not found relating
> > > > libGLU.so, so I deleted the libMesaGLU symlink. No success. Any ideas?
> > >
> > > can you send me output grom glxinfo??
> > >
> > > bartek
> >
> > There you are. Thanks for replying. Searching in my system I found that
> > I didn't had any libGLU.so* file, so I found it belonged to the package
> > mesag3. Even when supposedly I had this installed the file didn't exist.
> > So I reinstalled it, and now GL works again, but very slowly (slower
> > than before I installed nvidia's driver).
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