On Sun, 19 May 2002, Flavio Villanustre wrote:

> Norman, tried both with no success. Now I'm looking at a libGL.a that 
> XFree86-devel rpm from RedHat 7.3 has dropped into /usr/X11R6/lib. 
> 
> As soon as I have a clue I'll let you know to warn other people migrating 
> to RedHat 7.3.
> 
I've finally got flightgear working on RedHat 7.3 with NVidia drivers. The 
only drawback I found is that either enabling game-mode or setting 
geometry leads to veeeery low framerates (probably due to software 
rendering?). Other than that, flightgear runs smoothly on a window with 
above than 50 fps on a Geforce2.

It looks like flightgear got linked against a /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a 
presumable from Mesa (it comes from XFree86-devel.xxx.rpm) instead of 
/usr/lib/libGL.so from NVidia.

So for everybody upgrading to RedHat 7.3, just make a symbolic link for 
libGL.so into /usr/X11R6/lib/ dir after installing your NVIDIA_GLX rpm. 
Just in case copy your NVidia GL headers into /usr/include/GL.

To put it in a nutshell:

rpm -U NVIDIA_GLX.*
ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so /usr/X11R6/lib/
cp /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX/include/GL/* /usr/include/GL/

After that, just compile plib, Simgear and flighgear as usual.

Hope this helps others as well.

Regards,

Flavio Villanustre




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