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Subject: Re: Proposition to make nvidia driver stop overwritting files
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Mark Felder wrote at 10:12 -0500 on Jun  6, 2012:
 > On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:01:42 -0500, John Hein <jhein@symmetricom.com>  
 > wrote:
 > 
 > >      Does anyone know if there are any ports for which mesa's libGL is
 > >      required or preferred over the nvidia flavor?
 > 
 > Wouldn't this be more obvious already? I'd suspect some existing Nvidia  
 > user would have reported a bug already about a program not working because  
 > the current situation completely overwrites the mesa libGL, so it's nearly  
 > the same situation.
 > 
 > I've been running Nvidia for years and use all sorts of applications. So  
 > far I  haven't hit this yet, so presumably there are minimal compatibility  
 > issues.

Yes, I expected the number of failure cases to be small and/or
not noticed.

Have you tried a vnc server that links with libGL and successfully
uses 3d acceleration (in a remote vnc viewer)?