Re: [gentoo-dev] Point of fact.

[Marc Soda]

What would you suggest in place of GRUB?

On 2002.03.07 20:42 Tom Newsom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whoever gets this, if your in #gentoo then you`ll know me by the nick
> Jeepster.
>
> You`ll also possibly know I refuse point blank to use the nvidia stuff
> from portage and if you`ve taken any notice you`ll also know why.
>
> Take the following comment from your web site...
>
> *************
> At the moment, there's one known quirk with the install. Some
> applications (most notably the Quake series) do not use the standard
> library search path for loading libGL.so, but instead manually dlopen
> "/usr/lib/libGL.so". For this reason, make sure that /usr/lib/libGL.so
> is a symlink that points to /opt/nvidia/lib/libGL.so. We'll be
> addressing this quirk soon.
> *************
>
> It isnt a quirk, the paths that quake,UT etc look in for GL libs is a
> standard place, when nvidia decided a while ago to create linux
> drivers
> they decided on a standard place for thier libs to be, that being
> /usr/lib and also they *had* to alter some XFree libs and links.
>
> Once you accept you`re nvidia portage files sent the libs to the wrong
> place then you will fix your "quirk"
>
> I can if you wish get a guy who started the nvidia drivers to come
> into
> #gentoo and tell you why you`re /opt/ place is wrong.
>
> Other than this and GRUB being default boot loader, gentoo is
> excellent
> in all areas. Keep up the excellent work.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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