"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> a) Unload the kernel's GART module during the autodetection and load >> NVidia's special kernel module,
> Nvidia's kernel module does have an AGP driver, but it is smart enough > to not activate this portion of the driver if the linux GART module is > already there. As my memory serves this was not the case with early GeForce drivers and I'm glad to hear that things changed in the meantime. > Depending on your system, one or the other may work better for you > though, so the nvidia readme encourages try the "other" one if you > have problems with the first. And nvidia does provide full source for > their own kernel module. There might be some misunderstanding here - I assume you mean the GART part of their kernel module. They still link the 'nv-kernel.o' binary object into their module. >> b) replace the OpenGL libraries, > Yes this is allowed. Unfortunately XFree86/Mesa don't (or at least > didn't) put the opengl libs where the linux standard said they should, > nvidia did. I'd expect libGL in /usr/lib/ where every other Unix puts it. To my knowledge XFree86 doesn't behave different by default - you can choose a different location on compile time by putting a 'host.def' with: #define NothingOutsideProjectRoot YES > [...] That causes a huge mess if you have multiple opengl libs > on your system [...] I'd try to avoid having multiple sets of the same libraries and I can confirm that this calls for trouble by default. I've been maintaining my own Linux 'distribution' with the compiler for nearly 10 years now and I must admit that I spent lots of time experiencing that you get really bad results if you compile and install a set of libraries without proper removing the remains of the previous version :-) >> c) run a special X Server. > Nvidia gives you a new driver (nvidia vs. nv) for your X server, but > you have never needed a special X server. Good to know, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
