Re: [Libvisual-users] Getting wierd error's

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 14:02 -0800, acidblue wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:43, Dennis Smit wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:28 -0800, acidblue wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 10:37, Dennis Smit wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 09:04 -0800, acidblue wrote:
> > > > > I reinstalled libvisual without a hitch.
> > > > > However when I try to install libvisual-bmp with
> > > > > prefix=/usr/local my computer locks up when it reaches
> > > > > "Checking glx.hc" or something like that. I have a nvidia 
> > > > > card, if that matters, I had to comment out certain things
> > > > > in my xorg conf. file to get it to work right(according to nvidias'
> > > > > instructions) but it wasn't 'glx' i think it was 'load dri'.
> > > > > Don't know if this helps explain things.
> > > > 
> > > > Hmms, to be honest, I have no idea what is going on..
> > > > 
> > > > how is the libvisual-xmms module compiling (just to
> > > > check if it reacts different) ?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Dennis
> > > 
> > > Libvisual-xmms compiles fine, but I get the same 
> > > error as before when i try to run xmms and enable
> > > the libvisual plugin. 
> > > "xmms needs libvisual, not found" or something to the effect.
> > > Back to square  one.
> > 
> > Hmms, It might be because it can't find the plugins, can you
> > check if the plugins are either installed in
> > /usr/lib/libvisual or /usr/local/lib/libvisual ?
> > 
> > 
> > That might explain it...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Dennis
> 
> Ok there aren't any directories /usr/lib/libvisual
> /usr/local/libvisual, I'm assuming you meant directories.
> There are a couple of files 'libbeep.so' and so on in 
> /usr/local/lib, I didn't find a libxmms file.
> There isn't a directory labeled 'libvisual'

Have you installed 'libvisual-plugins' ?

If so, could you check where it did install the plugins...

Thanks,
Dennis