Re: 3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)

[Kenward Vaughan <kaynjay@igalaxy.net>]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:46:37AM -0800, David Steinberg wrote:
> 
> Hi Erik,
> 
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
> >   how do I make this work? I have tdfx module (loade), libglide3 and
> > libglide3-dev (like debian planet suggests), X output says that DRI is
> > used etc... yet I get the message:
> 
> You need to install the xlibmesa3 package and, optionally, xlibmesa-dev
> for development.
> 
> All of those old mesag* and glide* packages are no longer needed either;
> you might as well get rid of them.
...

David,

I have dumped those packages (I'm running X v.4), but then discovered an
app. which is linked against them.  How can one run that, given the conflict
with xlibmesa3 ?


Kenward
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