Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mandrake8.0 & Riva TNT2 Vanta

[Jim W. <ji...@ke...>]

Ranga,

You may want to take this up on a nVidia support list.  Generally I've found
it easier to get one of the simple demo programs for opengl running first, but
in any case there are a couple things on your system that will yeild some
information.

First there should be (usually is) a program called glxinfo.  That will tell
you if your driver is operating...probably it won't say that.  Also there is
usually a log file generated by X4.x.x  (called XFree86.0.log?)...in the
directory where log files usually go.  If the drivers are installed, and you X
is configured to use them, it should tell you where things went wrong.  But as
I said, if you need further help you should probably contact an nVidia group.

BTW the good news is that once you get this working...it'll usually work fine
with any other 3D apps you decide to use down the road.  This is IMO one of
the biggest areas that the distros need to refine a bit...getting 3D running
out of the box.  Unfortunately nVidia's licensing seems to be holding that up
a bit.

Best,

Jim


VS Renganathan <aki...@ya...> said:

> On Friday 05 October 2001 08:40, VS Renganathan wrote:
> Hi,
>  I am planning to move from Cygwin to Linux and got Linux-Mandrake 8.0
>  installed easily and also got latest CVS snapshots of FlightGear, SimGear
>  and PLib-1.4.2 (latest PLib is not backward compatible in pu.h, I
>  discovered) compiled without much problem.
>  While doing make on SimGear (on the new Linux machine) I found that
>  compilation stopped at ~/simgear/xml/easyxml.cxx complaining of "-lz" not
>  found. I did a make install at that stage (since I saw that configure had
>  created zlib earlier) and then it proceeded without a glitch. I dont know
>  whether this is normal, acceptable procedure. I just wanted to bring it to
>  the notice of experts!.
>  While running FlightGear for the first time it complained of libmk4.so.0
>  not found. I copied it from /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib as suggested by "ldd
>  fgfs", and it progressed. I suppose libmk4.so.0 is installed by SimGear, in
>  that case is this OK?.
>  Next (while running FlightGear) I get the error "GLUT: Fatal error - OpenGL
>  GLX extensions not supported by display:0.0". This one beats me.
>  I am trying Linux first on RIVA TNT2 Vanta-16Mb which is supposed to be
>  same as TNT2 except 64 bit bus instead of TNT2's 128 bit bus. I used the
>  latest Kernel and GLX drivers from nVidia's Linux driver download site.
>  What could possibly be wrong.? I know lots of you use Linux so I think you
>  can help. Thanks in advance.
>  Regards
>  Ranga
> 
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