Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 12:53:42 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: "freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GNOME3 and nvidia-driver Message-ID: <CAN6yY1tFrqNDKRhWSVaGTJXzwwxyQFXJvL0DyLFhhfv_ZhtDww@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJuc1zPFVM60uo3zRB2fY3wkny1Nf-WtQLQftYhmh1jPwXiSeg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJuc1zPFVM60uo3zRB2fY3wkny1Nf-WtQLQftYhmh1jPwXiSeg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote: > Hi, > > The latest GNOME3 update doesn't appear to live well with > nvidia-driver. I'm attempting to build gnome3, but it's failing during > the configure of graphics/cogl (required by graphics/cogl, required by > graphics/clutter, required by accessibility/caribou): > > ... > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.32.0... yes (version 2.42.0) > checking EGL/egl.h usability... no > checking EGL/egl.h presence... no > checking for EGL/egl.h... no > configure: error: Unable to locate required EGL headers > ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. > ... > > Hmm. Okay, a quick search reveals graphics/libEGL has the headers. > # cd /usr/ports/graphics/libEGL && make install clean > ... > ===> Checking if libEGL already installed > ===> Registering installation for libEGL-10.3.3 > pkg-static: libEGL-10.3.3 conflicts with nvidia-driver-340.46 > (installs files into the same place). Problematic file: > /usr/local/lib/libEGL.so > *** Error code 70 > > Stop. > make: stopped in /usr/ports/graphics/libEGL > > What should I do? > > Cheers > -- > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> > Switch to Mate? ;-) I'll be doing this shortly, so it's not entirely facetious. After some time with Gnome3 on Linux, I switched to Mate and have been very happy with it. (Mate is a fork of Gnome2.) Cinnamon is another option. It is GTK3 based, but retains the customisability of Gnome2. I have only very limited experience with it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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