[newbie] mesa GL removal
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
[newbie] mesa GL removal
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
