Re: [Mesa3d-users] Nvidia and Mesa and the same system... do they can coexist ?

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

Karim Forsthofer wrote:
> Hello mesa  users 
> 
> I have the this problem: 
> 
> First, I have the Nvidia Drivers and Mesa installed on
> my FreeBSD 5.1 system. It worked well. But I couldn`t
> compile any opengl apps. I tried ada compiler gnat and
> cm3 (modula-3) compiler to build some simple opengl
> apps, but got confused error msg`s. The cm compiler
> system installer script answred also that he couldn`t
> find libGLU.a libGl.a  on my system. Int he ada
> newsgroup they told me to re-install nvidia, perhaps
> mesa conflicts with nvidia. I did that, nvidia
> uninstalled fine, but no chance to re-install it. I
> also tried to backup the mesa libs and deleted it in
> the main library dirs  once again, nvidia put out some
> errors. (don`t know anymore which)
> 
> After this mess, I re-install the whole system, and
> now I only installed nvidia without mesa.  What is the
> next step folks ?  I need the libs from mesa to work
> with opengl (also need Glut), but I could not install
> it, because of the conflicts. 
> I need also libGL.a, but Nvidia doesn`t install this
> lib .. but when I take the libs from mesa, my compiled
> apps  wont run with "real"3d acceleration.
> (readed in the nvivida irc) 
> 
> Do you understand what I mean ? It`s a bit complicate.

1. Uninstall your NVIDIA and Mesa libs from /usr/lib/.

2. Install the NVIDIA driver package.  Verify that it works.

3. Compile Mesa and manually install the libGL.so.* files in 
/usr/local/lib (for example).

4. Use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to choose between the NVIDIA and Mesa libraries 
in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib, respectively.

5. The libGLU.so from your original XFree86 install should be fine.

6. The libglut.so (GLUT) from Mesa can be installed in /usr/lib

-Brian