On 6/27/06, Vladimir A. Pavlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the section concerning mesalib libdrm is said to be a _required_ dependency. In the libdrm section it's said that it provides a "direct interface with video hardware using the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Modules" while the kernel documentation suggests me to choose my card from the given list that doesn't contain anything about "nvidia" or "GeForce" (I have NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 video card).
DJ probably knows better than I do, but I think libdrm is a required dependency since we build with the make target linux-dri.
Does this mean I'm NOT able to use mesalib as well as I need not to build it?
No. Mesa will provide software fallbacks for all OpenGL operations that are not hardware supported. Unfortunately for you, the NVIDIA cards don't seem to have any implementation for hardware rendering in the open source drivers. I.e., there is not a dri/drm implementation for NVIDIA. However, you should still build Mesa or you will have no OpenGL implementation without the closed-source binary drivers/libGL from NVIDIA. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
