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From: Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To be mesa or not to be mesa...
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:09:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090625110927.GA4752@ca.inter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090625025151.GB5959@solfire>

090625 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> I am using an nvidia graphics card GeForce (7600 GT (rev a2))
> with the nvidia drivers.  Do I need mesa to be installed ?
> I am heavily using OpenGL with Blender.

On my machine with an 'Asus EN8500GT Nvidia 512 MB DDR2 800' card

  root:502 root> eix ^mesa$
  ...
  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)
  ...

  root:503 root> equery d mesa
  [ Searching for packages depending on mesa... ]
  virtual/glu-7.0 (media-libs/mesa)
  virtual/opengl-7.0 (media-libs/mesa)
  x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 (!minimal? >=media-libs/mesa-7.1)
  x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-180.29 (media-libs/mesa)

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-25 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-25  2:51 [gentoo-user] To be mesa or not to be mesa meino.cramer
2009-06-25  3:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-25  3:58   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-06-25  8:15     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-25 11:09 ` Philip Webb [this message]

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