Comment 8 for bug 111648
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| Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote Re: conflicts wit xorg-driver-fglrx and nvidia-glx | #8 |
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The problem is that fglrx and nvidia binary X drivers need their own GL libraries. These libraries only work if you have the matching binary X driver AND a matching kernel module.. If you ever had a machine that needed to use two differing graphic card models (e.g. an ATI and an NVIDIA or an ATI and a Matrox) and one need to use binary drivers, you would never be able to have accelerated 3D on both cards at once since only one GL library can be used at a given time. Another issue arises if you leave a binary only set of GL libraries installed and then switch to a "regular" xorg driver. Setting conflicts probably isn't a great solution as people could find the old ATI driver pulled up when switching to fglrx and thus struggle to switch back...