Actually, I specificall avoided installing Mesa... I have an ATI Radeon 32MB
DDR video card. To get 3d opengl hardware acceleration I had to download,
build, and install the DRI-CVS code. This incorporates the required mesa
libs - and I can run gears and get > 1000 FPS (I average 1086 FPS). I also
have AC3D, an opengl 3d rendering app which works nicely.
Using the DRI-CVS code under Mandrake 7.2, I had no problems with these
games. I only ran into problems upon upgrading to 8.0 and rebuilding the
DRI-CVS. It built and installed without error (if you change your kernel you
must rebuild the DRI because it builds and replaces the kernel radeon,
voodoo, mga, etc, modules with the latest/greatest modules). I had
kernel-2.4.2 under 7.2 and have 2.4.3-20mdk under 8.0. I had XFree86-4.0.2
under 7.2 and now have XFree86-4.0.3 under 8.0. These are really the main
differences between the two versions that I was running (I had switched 7.2
to glibc2.2 and everything worked fine...including the games so this isn't
likely the problem).
On Monday 07 May 2001 14:35, rees wrote:
> >===== Original Message From Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
> >
> >Civileme wrote:
> >> On Sunday 06 May 2001 17:14, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> >> > I was running a 7.2 system not too long ago and with this system, I
> >> > was able to play Myth II, Heretic II, and Terminus under linux. Since
> >> > upgrading to 8.0, I find it impossible to play any of my linux games.
> >> > Under 8.0:
>
> I did a custom install of LM8.0 and selected all the workstation package
> groups except for the server packages. I tried to run the Mesa gears
> program, and got nothing. The first thing I checked was if mesa was
> installed -- ie "rpm -qa | grep Mesa" (note the capital M!). Mesa-devel and
> Mesa-demos was installed but *not Mesa* itself! Therefore I suggest you
> check to make sure that the Mesa rpm is indeed on your system, as well as
> the Glide drivers if you have a 3Dfx card like I do. If not, install it.
>
> Hope that helps --Rees
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