On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 01:34 +0100, Stephen Wilkinson wrote: > Hello All, > > I have both xf86-video-vesa and nvidia-96xx installed, but I have > issues with the proprietary drivers, so I wanted to try out vesa with > libgl. > > I can remove nvidia-96xx, but trying to remove nvidia-96xx-utils flags > lots of conflicts. I was going to use pacman -Rc but that would mean > uninstalling (and later reinstalling) lots of packages... and I'm > thinking there must be a quicker and more elegant way about this. > > I was wondering if there's a way to force removal of nvidia-96xx-utils > and ignore the dependencies since libgl will satisfy them anyway. (I > know in general it would not be a good idea for pacman to allow > this...) > > I tried pacman -R --force but that doesn't work (--force is not a > removal option). > > I thought about forcing the installing of libgl with -f instead, but I > thought it would be neater to remove nvidia-96xx-utils first > (otherwise I will have problems later when it comes to delete either > package?) > > Any thoughts on this would be appreciated! > > Steve Vesa driver doesn't support DRI and/or OpenGL, so you'll end up with software rendering anyways, no matter what you do.
