Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 10:10:28 -0600 From: John Hein <jhein@symmetricom.com> To: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposition to make nvidia driver stop overwritting files Message-ID: <20431.33012.144653.728657@gromit.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <op.wfhlvjos34t2sn@tech304> References: <20120606131623.GA82148@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20431.28886.146662.868144@gromit.timing.com> <op.wfhlvjos34t2sn@tech304>
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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)?
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