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So, I'm a big gamer, but still want to tear myself
away from the windows OS. I'm starting to learn more and more about how
linux works and interacts with it's hardware. One of the things that is
still illuding me though is having successful, reliable 3d support. After
succesfully screwing up all hopes of doing this with my 7.2 installation it gave
me one more reason to upgrade to 8.0 which I did promptly. So, this time
following the instructions from nVidia exactly I forged ahead with high
hopes. However it appears that the original mesaGL that come with X (I'm
guessing) still remain in vestiges. I post I read on here a couple of days
ago warned them to make sure to remove all the mesaGL stuff and to do this by
following the nVidia readme. Well it doesn't specifically say anything
about removing mesaGL, it appears that it's just "bypassed" by replacing the
symlinks. Is this a correct observation? And if so, why isn't mine
working? :)
No matter what I try to play (so far just quake2,
Unreal Tournament, and Tux racer demo) I always get some kind of error ranging
from missing mesaGL and GLU library (seen during the make command for Tux racer)
to svga perssion denied... broken pipline (quake2 execution) and completely not
running at all or very slowly (Unreal Tournament).
So it all amounts to this. I NEED HELP.
I don't know what works with what... In windows installations the latest
opengl support came with the latest drivers from nVidia, does this also apply to
the linux versions of this driver? Do I need the OpenGL utilities
library? Also, I've heard that the drivers for nVidia concerning the
performance of my AGP port are poorly written and I should stick with the
original drivers but use nVidia's openGL stuff. There DOES appear to be an
option that can be added to X config file that changes it... would this be the
proper way to do it? Basically I think I've gotten to much conflicting
information. At this point I would settle for a step by step howto of
exactly I can have 3d support using openGL on my system.
Video Card:
Creative Labs nVidia TNT2 Ultra 32 mb
700mhz pentiumIII
256mb ram
Don't hold back people, any and all help is
appreciated :) Thanx in advance.
Adam
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- [newbie] mesa GL removal Adam Willcox
- Adam Willcox
