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.
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