On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Austad, Jay wrote: > I'm still having trouble with mine also, except I have an Nvidia Geforce. > > I know I'm missing some libs because glxinfo dies with a missing lib error, > and I can't compile things that use opengl. Quake and terminus won't even > start either. > > If I remove glut and mesa from my system completely, what do I need to grab > and compile or make links to to get it all working right? Do I have to load > the dri module with the geforce? What other modules? > > Jay > Which libraries are you missing? In case you didn't know about the command 'ldd <filename>' will tell you. When I upgraded from 3.3.6 to 4.0.1 I removed ALL of my old "libGL.so*" and "libMesaGL.so*" libraries. Only keep "libGLU*" and "libglut*" around. Depending on where you like your libraries, I put them in /usr/lib. Also, just incase any old programs were linked to "libMesaGL.so*", you might want to make some symlinks to "libGL.so" as well. Then make sure you have "/usr/X11R6/lib" (or where ever the XF4 libraries are) in ld.so.conf and then run 'ldconfig'. After that, try 'ldd glxinfo' again. I appologise if you already know how to do this. As far as which modulse to load, you need to load the DRI module if you want to use 3D acceleration. If you are only planning on running 3D apps under root, then you do not need that extra section for DRI that specified permissions. I found out about that in README.DRI, which for me, was under "/var/X11R6/lib/doc". Be careful about some of those docs though, they aren't completely accurate. Also, dri.sourceforget.net has a link to "libGLU", glide3x w/ DRI support, and a couple other things. Ross --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org