Solved WAS: Re: 3dfx & openGL? what do I need? (kernel 2.4, X 4.x)
thanks a lot to everybody who answered! it's kinda funny because I did
not realize that it actually works, it just didn't loos like it's
working because gl programs ran in window and didn't look different from
the ones that I ran on non-accelerated display. but when I tried
xscreensaver on the whole screen it became clear that it works (once I
got the required libs and started it on bpp 16).
I am still puzzled by Xlib trying to connect to :0 even though the
program is running (succesfully) on display :3
erik
David Steinberg wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
>
> > <sort-of-rant on which packages to get>
> > this problem is more general, there are some 'groups' of packages that
> > all provide same/similar functionality but it's not clear which ones
> > work together, netscape packages are similar (or at least were when I
> > was installing netscape).
> > </sort-of-rant>
>
> Agreed. These mesa and glide packages are very confusing. Netscape is
> similar. I don't know if it could be resolved by better naming, or if
> maybe there needs to be some documentation explaining the twisted logic
> <g> behind these intricately related groups of packages.
>
> Do others find that the current combination of naming and dependancies are
> sufficient to make things clear?
>
> > dpkg: mesag3-glide2: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you
> > request:
> > xbase-clients depends on libgl1; however:
> > Package libgl1 is not installed.
> > Package mesag3-glide2 which provides libgl1 is to be removed.
> >
> > I got these for all the packages (AFAIK, lot of them: xpp, libfltk1,
> > xscreensaver-gl, vreng, xlockmore-gl, kdebase etc...)
>
> How I dealt with this: first, I used apt-get. I acutally got rid of the
> old packages first, and it uninstalled lots of packages that I didn't want
> to get rid of, like libwine, wine, xbase-clients, xf86setup, and
> xscreensaver-gl. That made me a little bit nervous, but when I
> reinstalled them, it actually installed xlibmesa3 and xlibmesa-dev; that's
> how I found those packages in the first place.
>
> > how do I test it now? I got the following info from glxinfo:
>
> The glx stuff looks good. Do you also see the OpenGL/Mesa stuff in
> the glxinfo output? Like this?
>
> OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc.
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Voodoo3 20001101
> OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4
> OpenGL extensions:
> GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_tranpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr,
> GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,
> GL_EXT_histogram,
> ...
>
> > btw what do the Xlib messages mean? why would it try to connect to
> > :0.0 server???
>
> I have no idea. I've been running exclusively on display 0, so I don't
> know why it's trying to use display 0 when you're obviously wanting to use
> display 2. Weird. Maybe someone else can help?
>
> > > Also, make sure that your kernel supports AGP (CONFIG_AGP is m or y; and
> >
> > I have PCI video card - does this mean that PCI cards don't work?
>
> Ooo...that never even crossed my mind. I just saw on some web page that
> you need AGP support, so I included it; I don't know if works on a PCI
> card. Again, it's outside of my experience. Maybe someone else knows?
> You should probably try to find out the anwer to this from the XFree86
> people.
>
> > I noticed that already. that's quite annoying - is this a temporary
> > limitation?
>
> I don't know. I think it might actually be a limitation of the
> hardware. That's jsut a guess though.
>
> Sorry I couldn't be a little more helpful. My only knowledge comes from
> my experience in getting mine to work. Obviously, our situations are a
> little different.
>
> --
> David Steinberg -o) In a world without walls
> Computer Engineering Undergrad, UBC / \ and fences, who needs
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