<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >NVIDIA drivers (Mesa libGL replacement)</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.63 "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Nvidia OpenGL Configuration mini-HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Download the software packages" HREF="downloadsw.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Qt" HREF="x125.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Java 2 SDK, Java 3D extension, and Java PlugIn for Netscape (optional)" HREF="x147.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Nvidia OpenGL Configuration mini-HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x125.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 2. Download the software packages</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x147.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN134" >2.6. NVIDIA drivers (Mesa libGL replacement)</A ></H1 ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2314.tar.gz</P ></LI ><LI ><P >NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2313.tar.gz</P ></LI ></UL ><P > Note that XFree86 4.0.1 and later is required with driver 0.9-6 and later. If you have XFree86 4.0.0, then you'll have to download the older 0.9-4 version. You should try to use the lastest XFree86 and NVIDIA drivers. </P ><P > Download the drivers at: <A HREF="http://www.nvidia.com/" TARGET="_top" >http://www.nvidia.com/</A > </P ><DIV CLASS="TIP" ><P ></P ><TABLE CLASS="TIP" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="25" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP" ><IMG SRC="../images/tip.gif" HSPACE="5" ALT="Tip"></TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" ><P > See the updated FAQ at Nvidia.com while you are downloading. It has important installation information not in this HOWTO. </P ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P > The NVIDIA drivers provide a kernel driver: /lib/modules/kernel.version.number/video/NVdriver and libGL.so and libGLcore.so files that go into /usr/lib/ to replace and Mesa ones that might be in there. libGL.so is OpenGL. These files are Nvidia's own hardware accelerated OpenGL implementation. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x125.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x147.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Qt</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="downloadsw.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Java 2 SDK, Java 3D extension, and Java PlugIn for Netscape (optional)</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >