Re: [Mesa3d-users] Mesa with glide?

[Daniel <kf0...@ch...>]

Thorben Thuermer and Brian Paul,
Thanks for the tip, but it's not that I am not running as root. Tried that.

Thorben,
You refer to xlock. I don't seem to have that program installed. Do I 
need it?

/ Daniel Uppström


Thorben Thuermer wrote:

> Daniel Uppström wrote:
> 
>> Maybe someone can help me with this:
>> I use a RH7.1 system with a Voodoo2 and the glide drivers. Mesa is built
>> with glide support, but if I set the MESA_GLX_FX environment variable to
>> anything else than "disable" I get a seg fault when trying to run a
>> mesa-application.
>> Anyone got an idea about what I should do?
>> 
>> / Daniel Uppström
>> 
> 
> I'm using Mesa with glide on my voodoo2, and it works.
> I remmember having the same problem, but one day it worked
> and i'm not sure why.
> 
> The easy solution is that you are not running the program
> as root (which is needed by glide to access /dev/mem).
> 
> my setup looks like:
> root@newone[~]$ ldd $(which xlock) | grep -iE 'mesa|glu|glx|gl|glide'
>         libMesaGL.so.2 => /usr/lib/libMesaGL.so.2 (0x40082000)
>         libGLU.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 (0x40151000)