Charles, all, I am just reading along here...
= My Machine = Dell i8100 laptop ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility Mandrake 8.1 Linux 2.4.9-13smp i686 [ELF] Upgraded to Xfree86 4.2.0 (rpm still thinks its 4.1) > Do rpm -q Mesa. > You should have Mesa-4.0.1-4mdk. > > Su to root and launch glxgears from a terminal. > You should see the line "Loading required GL library > /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2" 935 root@psybernet:/ (10:04:19) # $ rpm -q Mesa bash: $: command not found 936 root@psybernet:/ (10:04:32) # glxgears Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual 937 root@psybernet:/ (10:04:37) So would it be useful for me to improve my system? Shld i go to 8.2 first? Walter -- Walter Logeman Psychotherapist http://www.psybernet.co.nz
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