[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#588590: Bug#588590: Bug#588590: Conflicts with nvidia-glx

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2010-09-07 11:47, Ariel wrote:
>>> And does this mean nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx and nvidia-glx can both be
>>> installed at the same time?
>>
>> Not yet, but it makes it possible eventually.
>>
>>> (Although, that's probably not useful since the kernel module can't be.)
>>
>> Yeah, that's still a problem.
> 
> I assume no one is current attempting to change this. But is it a goal
> for the future, or is it just too much trouble?
> 
> (It would be nice, so I can have multiple monitors, since I already have
> the card. But then again new low end nvidia cards are not very expensive.)

What are you trying to do? Run two cards in one machine using two
different versions of the driver? That won't work.

Having multiple versions of the libraries installed would only be useful
if there was some automatic way that detects the the card and configures
the system to use the correct kernel module and libraries and Xorg driver.
As we don't have this, we just let you install one variant and that
tries to have strict dependencies so that you don't run into trouble
mixing the variants/versions or missing some pieces.

So without a real use case I don't see a need for allowing multiple
nvidia-glx variants to coexist.


Andreas