From: <fo...@ya...> - 2002-09-18 02:17:49
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--- Felix Kühling <fx...@gm...> wrote: > glide should not be linked to libGL.so since people > with other graphics > cards don't want to install glide. It is linked to > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tdfx_dri.so which is > loaded dynamically by > libGL.so on a Voodoo card. well, if i compile mesa it IS linked in... dynamically. libGL chooses only to load it if MESA_FX or something of the like is set to enable. this means you can use libGL.so even if you remove glide from your system. > I havn't seen this problem with my brother's Voodoo3 > 3000. On his Debian > Woody I installed libglide2 which worked fine > (surprisingly as > tdfx_dri.so is linked against libglide3). The > package description of > libglide3 mentions that you need some extra kernel > module. I'm not sure > whether this is the DRM kernel module or something > else. im sure it is, apart from the framebuffer there is only one 3dfx module. > The Xfree kernel module (tdfx.o) should replace the > original kernel module. You can't have them both. are you sure about that? are they not one and the same? i am using linux-2.4.19, so everything should have been synched by this stage. surely the stock tdfx.o from linux-2.4.19 is good enough! cheers, Sam PS: please CC responses to me __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com |