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simcha

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Registered: 2013-11-14

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[SOLVED] mesa-libgl conflict with nvidia driver

I'm using lenovo G580 laptop which has following graphic cards:

lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 635M] (rev ff)

Installing bumblebee using wiki instructions results in following conflict error:

# pacman -S intel-dri xf86-video-intel nvidia-304xx bumblebee
warning: intel-dri-9.2.3-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: xf86-video-intel-2.21.15-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: nvidia-304xx-utils and mesa-libgl are in conflict (libgl). Remove mesa-libgl? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: intel-dri: requires mesa-libgl=9.2.3
:: bumblebee: requires mesa-libgl

I tried removing mesa-libgl with -Rdd but it didn't help. Searching through forum, I only found unsolved or unanswered posts with similar problems.

EDIT:
Insted of using 'nvidia-304xx' (info from wiki), i should have used 'nvidia'

Last edited by simcha (2013-11-15 03:26:21)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] mesa-libgl conflict with nvidia driver

I think nvidia-304xx is for older cards. Why do you think you should install it? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bu … l.2FNVIDIA doesn't mention it.

I tried removing mesa-libgl with -Rdd but it didn't help.

What do you mean "it didn't help'?

Last edited by karol (2013-11-14 16:44:54)

simcha

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Registered: 2013-11-14

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Re: [SOLVED] mesa-libgl conflict with nvidia driver

Somewhere on forum i found that removing mesa-libgl before installing nvidia driver resolved issue.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] mesa-libgl conflict with nvidia driver

I don't understand what happened here, can you please explain?
If the wiki suggest installing nvidia-304xx for your card, it should be fixed. Can you please point to that article?

How did you fix the mesa-libgl conflict?

simcha

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Registered: 2013-11-14

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] mesa-libgl conflict with nvidia driver

According to this wiki article, nvidia-304xx should be used for my graphic card. Installing that package from official repository is not possible because it conflicts with mesa-libgl required by intel-dri. However, intel-dri must be installed as explained here.
Googling more into this problem, i stumbled upon this post on archbang forum. Installing nvidia package dosn't conflicts with intel-dri and works perfectly with my card.

Technically, I didn't solved dependency issue, I installed the right package.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] mesa-libgl conflict with nvidia driver

GF108M [GeForce GT 635M] is not GeForce 6/7 series cards [NV40-NVAF], it's NVC1, see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames/

simcha

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Registered: 2013-11-14

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] mesa-libgl conflict with nvidia driver

Thanks for the info, I missed that