hello, my experience is just to find the right X/mesa combination (and the right xfree config file too ofcourse.. :-) on my mandrake8 I installed XFree binaries from xfree.org and mesa libs from Rawhide and now all is great.. regards, -xas- On Wednesday 29 August 2001 17:33, you wrote: > Just for a lark, I went to the Mesa site and > downloaded the source for the latest and greatest. I > can't remember the number it was something like 2.5.0 > or 3.5.0 Shoot! OH well. > I compiled and installed far from my usual libs (just > to not really screw things up if it didn't work) and > then symlinked from /usr/lib over to the new Mesa > libs. I have good news and bad news. > > Good news is that FlightGear started. I could see the > airport and the panel and everything. It was > beautiful. > > Bad News is that I somehow lost Direct Rendering. > This maybe a configuring issue or another problem. I > didn't really have time to mess with it last night, > but I was excited about the FG starting. > So the problem definately seems to be in what Redhat > has done to Mesa but not the compiler. gcc-2.96 RH > works ok for all of this. I only mention that because, > in a search to find a solution, I found a number of > people blaming the compiler for this, but this does > not seem to be the case. Besides I had FG working > before on my RH 7.1 box and it was all compiled with > their compiler. > > I still can't fly again, but I feel closer. > > Jonathan > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
