Re: [Mesa3d-users] NVidia and MesaGL

[Brian P. <br...@tu...>]

Darrell Blake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wanting to use MesaGL's GLUT with my NVidia drivers. I know it's possible 
> but I'm not sure how to do it. With NVidia having their nice closed source 
> drivers and no DRI for X mesa runs really really slow (as you can imagine). I 
> can't get OpenGL GLUT (from freshmeat.net) to install no matter what I do and 
> have been trying for ages then someone raised this as an alternative. I'm 
> hoping someone can help me do it. At the moment whenever I install mesa it 
> overwrites my nvidia drivers and the only way to get the speed back up is to 
> do a "make uninstall" in the mesa directory. I only want to install GLUT. I 
> also tried freeGLUT but it's not very good at all and had to do quite a bit 
> of messing about to get it installed.

Download Mesa (MesaLib*tar.gz and MesaDemos.tar.gz)
Build Mesa (and GLUT).
Look for the Mesa/src-glut/.libs/libGLU.so* file (or Mesa/lib/libGLUT*.so)
and copy it (and the symlinks) to /usr/lib/ or /usr/local/lib.

I.e. don't run 'make install' ; just copy the libGLUT*.so library files
by hand.

-Brian