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Date: 05 Feb 2003 22:11:56 -0500
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Nvidia GLX source
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That src.rpm just contains a tar.gz that contains the same binary driver
everybody is already using.  As far as being able to play tuxracer
again, you should be able to already.

Caleb

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 21:58, Bob Thomas wrote:
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> On the Nvidia web site, they have a source RPM (but no tar) for the GLX
> driver. I don't know what all is contained in it, but would it be
> possible to make an ebuild to extract the source from the rpm, compile
> it (optimized), and install it? If it were possible, I think it would be
> better than using the binary version. I would think that this would make
> prelinking possible if it were compiled right, and you could probably
> get performance gains by compiling it with your customized CFLAGS.
> 
> So, how about it? Has anybody looked at the source RPM from Nvidia? Has
> anybody tried compiling it? Can this be added to portage? Will I ever be
> able to play tuxracer again?
> 
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> Robert Thomas
> Georgia Institute of Technology
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