On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:05, you wrote: > Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The glut-libraries seem to be unimportant for quake3 but what the > > hell. Anyway this seems to bee a much more consistant way of packaging > > the Mesa-stuff. > > Thanks, glut3 is problably not needed by a lot of GL stuff (especially > games). > > This allows reducing potential error and allow using other library without > too much error (libGLU for example), this one comes with libGLU 1.3 from > SGI incorporated with Mesa 3.5. > > Fran�ois.
So, in summary, what packages are needed with what? For example, as "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, is this combo correct? : > I think you only should install Mesa if you have XFree 3.3.x. With > XFree 4.1.0, you already get a libGL. So the two possible setups are: > - XF 3.3 + libMesaGL + libMesaGLU + libMesaglut > - XF 4.1 + libMesaGLU + libMesaglut > (same for the devel packages). And further, is this true for *all* video cards (hidden agenda, I have a 3dfx <G>), or just non-Glide? cheers -- john in syd
