Re: nvidia drivers conflicting with mesa opengl drivers.
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:43:31PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote:
> I have on my system the nvidia drivers installed, and these provide the
> (propietary) nvidia opengl drivers. But I can't seem to get apt-get to
> remove xlibmesa because it seems to need that, while it shouldn't
> because I have another openGL version installed. Does anybody know how
> to solve this dependency problem?
Sure. Don't remove xlibmesa. You don't have a dependency problem, you
have an understanding problem. The nvidia drivers aren't high-level.
The nvidia driver provides the low-level stuff. You have to have xlibmesa
if you want to actually USE it.
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