I've been working on kde 3.4 and am doing some testing.
In order to get the GL screensavers to work, I had to install Mesa from
http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/
It is not a hard install, but it installs the follwing libraries:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 16 22:54 libGL.so -> libGL.so.1
lrw
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/16/05 23:32 CST:
> I've been working on kde 3.4 and am doing some testing.
>
> In order to get the GL screensavers to work, I had to install Mesa from
> http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net/
>
> It is not a hard install, but it installs the follwing libraries:
> [snip
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/16/05 23:32 CST:
> The problem is that xorg installs (in /lib):
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 653 Apr 9 21:45 /usr/lib/libGL.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Apr 9 21:45 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Apr 9 21:45 /usr/li
[I'm sorry if this comes as a duplicate message as I'm not sure about
the current status of the mail/news gateway and my posts don't seem to
appear on the mailing lists.]
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
Igor Zivkovic wrote:
> Are you sure it wasn't the GLUT library that was missing? Xorg and XFree
>
> both come with complete Mesa included.
>
No, I had freeglut i
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/17/05 00:14 CST:
> OK. I can work with that. Right now the issue is whether to mention
> mesa at all. I'm inclined to at least mention it. I don't know if the
> mesa install breaks anything else. I don't know what to test it with
> other than the kde screen
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>OK. I can work with that. Right now the issue is whether to mention
>mesa at all. I'm inclined to at least mention it. I don't know if the
>mesa install breaks anything else. I don't know what to test it with
>other than the kde screensavers.
>
> -- Bruce
>
>
>
Having
Jeremy Utley wrote:
> Having the Mesa 3d libs installed will break hardware 3D-rendering
> always - whether it be DRI-based, NVIDIA drivers, or ATI's FireGL
> drivers. People will be limited to software 3d rendering.
Thanks Jeremy. I can confirm that with the mesa libraries installed I
get 635
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>Jeremy Utley wrote:
>
>
>
>>Having the Mesa 3d libs installed will break hardware 3D-rendering
>>always - whether it be DRI-based, NVIDIA drivers, or ATI's FireGL
>>drivers. People will be limited to software 3d rendering.
>>
>>
>
>Thanks Jeremy. I can confirm that with
Jeremy Utley wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>>Jeremy Utley wrote:
>
>>>Having the Mesa 3d libs installed will break hardware 3D-rendering
>>>always - whether it be DRI-based, NVIDIA drivers, or ATI's FireGL
>>>drivers. People will be limited to software 3d rendering.
>>Thanks Jeremy. I can confi
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I figured out what happened. I installed the Nvidia binary drivers. It
> overwrote:
Is it a good idea to add manual installation of those NVidia drivers (and
possibly fglrx, I can provide instructions) to the book, so that future
readers don't step onto this problem?
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Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Is it a good idea to add manual installation of those NVidia drivers (and
> possibly fglrx, I can provide instructions) to the book, so that future
> readers don't step onto this problem?
OK. Send me what you have so I can review your proposal. I'm not
familiar
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