Thanks Ken and Armin. I'll have a try and give the result later.
> On 06/29/2012 12:44 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:29:41AM +0800, Omar wrote: >>> Just attachment of this mail. >>> >> If you need to compress a large file to attach it, use a linux >> compressor - 99% of people here cannot open rar files. In this >> case, I don't think we need it. >>> > > Luckily I had unrar installed when I updated it in the book, but I am > strongly against using it in Linux based stuff. Zip could be ok since > most of us may already have it if building mozilla products or such, but > not rar. > >>>> Thank you all. >>>> 1. My environment is based on LFS7.1 on VMware. >> >> Google thinks you need the correct options when building Mesa. >> According to debian bug 652501 you need the svga gallium driver. >> That driver is enabled in the book's instructions for Mesa. >> >> ĸen >> > > To be more specific, you need gallium svga driver AND libxatracker > (--enable-xa in Mesa instructions). That is already enabled in default > Mesa instructions in BLFS, and Xorg VMware driver will pick it up. But, > you need vmwgfx kernel driver, which is now in the place as the other > DRM drivers in kernel, but is in staging area in pre 3.3 kernels. It is > not enabled by default tough in any case. And the last point is ... Your > host system needs to have working 3D stuff. On windows host, any > DirectX9 capable card should work very well, including some newer i915, > possibly r200 ones and geforce4 or better. ones. I had hard time getting > 3D acceleration to work on Linux hosts and Intel card. It wouldn't be of > any problem with propretary ATI or NVidia, but since intel is open > source, and VMware player needs s3tc GL extension which is patented by > SIS so Mesa devs can't integrate it in Mesa source tree. There is > however external library at freedesktop.org for that, and I just got > that last night after few months of giving up on 3d in vmware! I guess > same thing would be needed for open source radeon and nouveau drivers. > > Also, for good 3D support, you need at least Player 4.0 or Workstation > 8.0. There is some 3D support in Player 3.1/Workstation 7.1, but not > that good. > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
