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Subject: Bug#77511: relationships between packages for 3d support
Date: 20 Nov 2000 09:44:09 +0100
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Severity: wishlist
Hi,
After getting XFree 4 to work with the tdfx module, I'm now trying to
get accelerated 3D. It appears that, according to
http://dri.sourceforge.net/DRIuserguide.html
that I need the 3dfx DRI kernel module, GLX modules for XFree86, and
an XFree-supplied libGL - and, in particular, *not* libGL from Mesa,
nor libglide - is this correct?
As it is now, when I try to run a 3d demo like "gears", I get a
message about setting a 3DFX env var, and it appears to be
unaccelerated, software only. An artifact of retaining Mesa with
Glide, I suppose.
So, for the wishlist, I'd think the package descriptions for XFree86,
as well as Glide/Mesa might do well to describe the relationship and
compatibilities in a bit more detail. As it is now, the Glide
packages suggests their installation if you have an appropriate card,
for instance. And perhaps have libGL from
XFree (is it included? where?) to conflict with libGL from Mesa
(although one might want to retain it under the libMesaGL name, of
course)?
The whole thing probably makes sense when you know how it's supposed
to work, but with only a rudimentary overview of the packages, it's
hard to figure out, I think.
-kzm
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