On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:15:10PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:50:16 -0800 > Marc Wilson <msw@cox.net> wrote: > > > 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. > > Not to be cocky or anything (you are right I don't know much about it), > but I thought the kernel driver was the low level and then the glx > package was the high level? Well, 'nvidia' is the low level kernel driver, libglx is the medium level kernel<->userland interface and xlibmesa is the high-level API :) -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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