RE: [newbie] Installing software problems

[Marcin Jendrzejewski]

Erm, Steve Flynn's reply was correct although I felt perhaps a bit brief 
and lacking in detail in case others are wondering and not sure how to 
do it.

Firstly you'll need to insert your cds, and mount your cdrom ('mount 
/mnt/cdrom' probably -- you may need to be 'root' to do it.)  Then 
you'll need to change to the rpms directory which I think from memory 
are /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/ .  You might want to check that.  the 'ls' 
command is your friend.  Anyhow, you'll be looking for a .rpm file along 
the lines of XFree86-devel-something-something.rpm
I can't remember the specific name but it's something like that,
just then do
rpm -ivh Xfree86-devel-something-something.rpm
You'll probably need to be root to do this.
You should see something like
Xfree86-devel   

Then go back and compile your package...







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[newbie] Getting X11 to use Mesa ?

[Marcin Jendrzejewski]

Hey all,
Ok this email is more like two questions than one.  I currently have a 
Nvidia Geforce2 Mx/200 with 64 megs of ram.  My query is it possible to 
use the Mesa3d library rather than Nvidias native GLX module (I'm 
prepared to lose some performance).  If so, how would I go about getting 
X to load the mesa library so that I can use opengl apps from X11 ?

Thanks
Marcin Jendrzejewski

PS: I want to do this because the nvidia driver seems unable to load the 
GLX module for X11.





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