Paul - I'm not an expert but I think Mesa is a 3D interface for running OpenGL software/hardware. I'm not sure if your video card will support OpenGL. I know many newer 3D accelerators do (3DFX Voodoo, nVidia TNT2/GEforce, Matrox G400, etc). I would check out Mesa and see if it supports your video card (i think it has a website ... www.mesa.org?) If it does I would check your Mesa configuration. If it doesn't, you maybe out of luck if the game requires Mesa to run (Quake 3/Unreal Tournament?) Hope this helps you out some. Aaron At 04:06 PM 10/3/2000 -0200, you wrote: > Hi, everybody. I had trouble searching so please be patient if this >has > recently been dealt with. > > I tried running a game i got from this cd recently, and I got this > error: > > "-- is Mesa compiled for your hardware?" > -- if you're using 3DFX hardware, is MESA_GLX_FX set to 'f'?" > "-- if you're using a custom GL, are you specifying it on the command > line?" > > I'm not really sure what these questions mean. Has anybody had similar > trouble. I seem to have the Mesa RPM's installed (on Mandrake 7.1) and > my laptop has an ATI 3D Rage P/M Mobility card that is properly >detected. I haven't had any other video related troubles other than >choppy screensavers in gnome. :) > > Thanks in advance, everybody! > > -Paul R > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
