[I'm sorry if this comes as a duplicate message as I'm not sure about
the current status of the mail/news gateway and my posts don't seem to
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>
> In order to get the GL screensavers to work, I had to install Mesa
> from
> http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/
>
Are you sure it wasn't the GLUT library that was missing? Xorg and XFree
both come with complete Mesa included.
> How should we proceed? Should we install Mesa over the existing
>
> libraries? In /usr/lib? In /usr/X11R6/lib?
>
The standard location for the OpenGL libraries as per the Linux/OpenGL
ABI specification is /usr/lib. Xorg/XFree in their self-centered world
got it wrong as usual.
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Igor Zivkovic
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