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Re: problem w voodoo3/XF86-4



On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 04:09:04PM +0200, Johannes J?rg wrote:
> Hello List
> 
> I still have this problem with my voodoo 3 3500 and XFree86-4.0.2-13:
> 
> My X-server crashes every time I want to run a 3d-accelerated program (i.e.
> quake3, ut, ...) The funny thing is, XScreensaver runs (well, it does not
> actually run, but walk ;-)) - I see an error message when it starts, but it
> disappears too fast that I could read it. However, if anybody has quake3 running
> on xf4 and voodoo3, I would appreciate to know how it has to be set up (I
> have tried to load all possible combinations of dri, tdfx, tdfx-dri, glx,...,
> the kernel supports agpgart, tdfx, dtfx-fb,...) I really don't know where to
> look for the problem.
...

Something I learned the hard way was that the mesa libraries (in xlibmesa3)
have been renamed.  One of my important molecular modeling packages kept
dying on me; no one had any answer to my questions about it; and I had more
or less given up on it.  Then I read on another site that the new ones could
be linked to names for the old:

daddy:~# ls -l /usr/lib/libMesa*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root    19 Apr 20 09:52 /usr/lib/libMesaGL.so.3
-> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root    20 Apr 20 09:52 /usr/lib/libMesaGLU.so.3 
-> /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1

They are backward compatible.  My app is up and running again!  Some of your
problems are likely because of this.

Kenward
-- 
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts.  For that he
doesn't really need a college education, for he can learn them from
books.  The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the
learning of many facts but the training of the mind to thinking--something
that cannot be learned from books.     Albert Einstein



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