On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, David Vincent-Jones wrote:
> I found only 'lobomesa6' in Synaptic. After installing this I can get
> the Demo OpenGL package to open but J crashes when I try to run any
> demo.
>
> Tried to install other Mesa packages and needed a very messy cleanup
> process to recover ... nasty ... will not do that again!
I guess you got a decent display card like nvidia that come with own
driver which conflicts with mesa. see what is the output
$ glxinfo | grep -i vendor
A possible "workaround" is to use vesa driver but then it downgrades
to a cheap display card (ie, all except nvidia and ati/amd).
$ sudo -e /etc/X11/xorg.conf
... inside the device section, change to
Driver "vesa"
restart x-server (ctrl-alt-backspace) to take effect.
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