LinuxPlanet: New HOWTO: Nvidia OpenGL Configuration mini-HOWTO

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 22, 2001

In this HOWTO, Robert B. Easter details how to install the
OpenGL drivers for Nvidia graphics cards on Linux. In addition to
just installing the Nvidia drivers, this mini-HOWTO also explains
how to install XFree86, the OpenGL Utility library (part of Mesa),
the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (glut), the full set of OpenGL manpages,
Qt and its OpenGL extension, and Java and its Java 3D extension so
that a user can have a complete runtime and development environment
for OpenGL applications on Linux.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

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