On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 10:00:15PM -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Alexander Volovics wrote:
I am back after having been "off the air" for 4 days due to my ISP's
yearly major mishap and have just finished scanning the more than 2000
accumulated emails. Whew!
>>>>>>Is it still necessary to remove the
(xorg-x11) Mesa-libGL and
>>>>>>Mesa-libGLU rpm's before installing the nvidia driver.
The technical answer here is that the nVidia GL libraries are put in
/usr/lib, and the Mesa-libGL library is put in /usr/X11R6/lib (like Neal
eluded to, though its *not* supposed to be a matter or luck!). The
trick is to ensure that your ld.so.conf file looks in /usr/lib before it
looks in /usr/X11R6/lib. You can tell by looking at the ldd output of
some GL X11 program (like glxgears). If it links to the nVidia library
in /usr/lib, you've done it right. If not, you may need to re-order the
libraries in your /etc/ld.so.conf file.
If the libary order is correct, then all that *should* be needed is to
run ldconfig after each installation of the nVidia modules.
......................cut to keep it short...........................
I know that on my measley MX-400 video card, I see about 46-48 fps
when
my libraries are mis-configured, and about 92-96 fps when I "clean
things up". That's nowheres near the 300-400 fps I think I should be
getting with this card at 4x AGP?
You describe the situation well. I installed and tried it out with and
without the xorg mesa-libgl library. Both work but eventually I removed
the nvidia driver again for reasons given below.
>(But now I have 'ugly' font rendering with the nv driver
on an
> LCD DVI flatpanel and I would like to see if the nvidia driver does
> any better).
Is the font rendering the driver's fault, or the font
server's
configuration's fault? My font rendering didn't change when I switched
from the "nv" driver to the "nvidia" driver.
My font rendering didn't improve noticeably either, with or without
additional nvidia parameters. So I removed the nvidia driver because
I don't need 3d extensions and don't like reinstalling the nvidia
driver with each kernel update.
I managed to improve my 'ugly' font rendering by choosing the 'best'
of the available rendering options and fiddling with the LCD panel
settings. I can live with the results.
Alexander
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