[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#594297: Bug#594297: libgl1-nvidia-alternatives: breaks DRI because overrides libGL from mesa

[Norbert Preining]

On Mi, 25 Aug 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I have a laptop with nvidia and intel card, and I always run on the
> > Intel card, but keep the nvidia drivers installed.
> 
> That doesn't make any sense to me -- all previous versions of the NVIDIA
> drivers would have diverted your glx module to one that only worked with
> NVIDIA.  Nothing changed about the latest version in that regard.

Umpf, yes, you are right. I long time ago wrote myself an intelligent
init script that switches on/off the nvidia card hardware wise and
initializes the libGL and libglx links to the right ones (MESA or NVIDIA),
as well as changing the xorg.conf file.

> > Upon installation of libgl1-nvidia-alternatives now DRI is broken as the
> > main libGL is nvidia.
> 
> Which is exactly the same thing that would have happened with nvidia-glx
> in any previous version of the package.

Ok, consider this as a request to make the alternatives allow me
to switch to mesa.

> both packages and select MESA, but that has never previously been possible
> and is not yet possible.

So it is the plan to allow switching?

Thanks for the explanations.

Best wishes

Norbert
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