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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To be mesa or not to be mesa...
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:09:32
Message-Id: 20090625110927.GA4752@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] To be mesa or not to be mesa... by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 090625 meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > I am using an nvidia graphics card GeForce (7600 GT (rev a2))
3 > with the nvidia drivers. Do I need mesa to be installed ?
4 > I am heavily using OpenGL with Blender.
5
6 On my machine with an 'Asus EN8500GT Nvidia 512 MB DDR2 800' card
7
8 root:502 root> eix ^mesa$
9 ...
10 Installed versions: 7.3-r1([2009-04-11 04:50:13])(motif nptl -debug -doc -kernel_FreeBSD -pic -video_cards_intel -video_cards_mach64 -video_cards_mga -video_cards_none -video_cards_r128 -video_cards_radeon -video_cards_s3virge -video_cards_savage -video_cards_sis -video_cards_sunffb -video_cards_tdfx -video_cards_trident -video_cards_via -xcb)
11 ...
12
13 root:503 root> equery d mesa
14 [ Searching for packages depending on mesa... ]
15 virtual/glu-7.0 (media-libs/mesa)
16 virtual/opengl-7.0 (media-libs/mesa)
17 x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 (!minimal? >=media-libs/mesa-7.1)
18 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.29 (media-libs/mesa)
19
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