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Re: Accelerated 3D driver for Dell Linux NVIDIA?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Sep 26 18:08:06 2001
Message-ID: <4vgZ72Nz0001FucKEp@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:08:02 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
CC: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <200109260125.VAA25181@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
Excerpts from pm.release: 25-Sep-101 Re: Accelerated 3D driver f.. Greg
Hudson@MIT.EDU (610)
> and their links for 7.0 RPMs are broken
I don't understand. I just fetched the 7.0 SBE Nvidia RPM and the 7.0
Retail RPM just fine. (Mind you, the 7.0 Retail RPM is SOLELY a set of
XF86Config files, so there IS lameness here.)
The 7.0 SBE for NVidia consists of:
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.5
/usr/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9
/usr/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9/ALI_USERS_README
/usr/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9/M64_USERS_README
/usr/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9/NVIDIA_Changelog
/usr/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9/NVIDIA_Linux.html
/usr/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9/TNT_USERS_README
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.5
/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.5
and
/dell/X11/README
/dell/X11/XF86Config-1024
/dell/X11/XF86Config-1280
/dell/X11/XF86Config-1600
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
/lib/modules/2.2.17-8/video/NVdriver
/lib/modules/2.2.17-8enterprise/video/NVdriver
/lib/modules/2.2.17-8smp/video/NVdriver
Modules for 2.2 seem wrong to me, though. I thought 7.0 was a 2.4 based
kernel.
I'm inclined to conclude that since /usr/lib/libGL.so is 1.1.<stuff> that
maybe the accelerated NVIDIA support is now native. But having spent a
lot of time groveling over the XFree86, RedHat, and Dell web sites
trying to understand Video support, I'm rather unfairly presuming I'll
never really get a simple, correct, and definitive answer to this.
-wdc
