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
>
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