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dasPaul
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 5:17 pm    Post subject: what exactly does eselect opengl do... Reply with quote

Hi there
I need to know what (file changes?) exactly does a "eselect opengl xorg/nvidia" do. How to find out?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Think of OpenGL as the free version of DirectX. Setting the OpenGL library determines what kernel module does the heavy lifting in rendering. By heavy Lifting, I mean 3d Acceleration, optimization etc
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It sets a bunch of symlinks and copies files to the correct place. This includes header files for compiling as well as libraries in /usr/lib.

The code is in /usr/share/eselect/modules/opengl.eselect

Things it does not affect:
  • Anything to do with the kernel or kernel modules (the above post is completely wrong)
  • Anything involving /etc/X11/ files
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you very much. I will investigate further into opengl.eselect
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