What I did earlier on a number of Linuces, is to
download sources and build and install a local Mesa,
like ~/lib/Mesa or so. Then it's all very clean.
I got the info from Mesa web site.
It may have to do with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and/or tweaking
find_dll routine.
> From: David Vincent-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Bill, thanks for the feedback;
>
> 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 will wait on others, more Linux knowledgeable, to find a solution.
>
> David
>
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 08:57 +0800, bill lam wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, David Vincent-Jones wrote:
> >
> > > Not sure if this already reported:
> > >
> > > " wdhandler
> > > Error in: demos_ok_button
> > > could not locate dll OSMesa: find_dll
> > > (could not locate dll',y) 13!:8]24 "
> > >
> > > Running Ubuntu 7.10 with latest updates in place.
> > >
> > Try install package libosmesa from synaptic.
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