On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 02:48 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On Sunday, 16. January 2011 20:24:17 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > > > > 1) building against the fglrx libgl implementation is a bad idea > > Agreed. Therefore nvidia-graphics-drivers* does not provide any libGL.so > symlink. Instead the libgl1-nvidia-alternatives package diverts the libGL.so > link provided by libgl1-mesa-dev and creates an alternative (via triggers) > pointing to the diverted libGL.so - so at link time always the mesa opengl > library will be used. For picking up the correct library at package build > time, a shlibs file redirecting to libgl1-mesa-glx is being used. > (I.e. in short - no building/packaging of opengl programs without > libgl1-mesa-dev installed).
Thanks for that. > One thing that probably won't be solved by the currently evolving free > drivers > (nouveau etc) is support for the GPGPU computation frameworks (CUDA, > OpenCL) - therefore we will need the non-free drivers in the future, too. :-( FWIW OpenCL support is planned for Gallium. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1295861777.8612.140.camel@thor.local
