[Slackbuilds-users] nvidia-{driver, kernel} [was: Updates - 20120801.1]

[Heinz Wiesinger]

On Friday 03 August 2012 01:11:15 King Beowulf wrote:
> On 08/02/2012 09:50 PM, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
> > sorry, I'll grab the occasion for just a small question: why in the
> > new version the GL headers from mesa are substituted too by nvidia's
> > ones?
> > 
> > Matteo
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> There is a bit of a difference in the two sets of headers and I think
> mixing and matching Mesa and Nvidia is generally a bad idea.  After all,
> you should have the headers to compile against the libGL you are
> actually using.   Also, I ran into a error a while back- can't remember
> what though - that wanted Nvidia headers since I was using the nvidia
> driver and its libraries.

Note that nvidia itself stopped installing those headers quite a while ago. 
See http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-260.19.12-driver.html for 
reference.

Grs,
Heinz
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