090625 meino.cra...@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) -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca