From: Erik S. <er...@da...> - 2002-06-03 22:31:29
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On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:03:36PM -0600, Brian Paul wrote: > > False. NVIDIA has their own in-house OpenGL drivers. [...] > The only likely reason I can see for installing Mesa on a system > with an NVIDIA card is to use one of Mesa's special features, like > the OSMesa interface for off-screen rendering. [...] > If you don't need a special feature of Mesa, ignore it and stick with > the NVIDIA OpenGL driver. I just took a look, and it appears my impression, which I stated as likely to be wrong, was in fact wrong. Lookit that. But I had also been laboring under the assumption that it did not replace gl.h. Once again, wrong. I still install the mesa packages first, though, to meet package dependencies and provide some additional header files. That opens another can of worms every time I do a system upgrade. Argh. -Erik Stambaugh |