[Mesa3d-users] "GL_RENDERER: Mesa X11" - why not Glide ?

[Antti K. <ko...@sc...>]

I just installed Mandrake 7.2 and of course tried to run tuxkart - with
not so much success, seems to render by X11 software renderer...

My 3D card is Voodoo 2. I have Device3Dfx installed, I have Glide_V2-2.53
installed, and I have Mesa-3.3 installed. Running test3Dfx and testGlide2x
succeeds - familiar 3dfx splash appears - so hardware and glide seems to
work.

But Mesa is not able to use 3dfx. I do have environment variable
MESA_GLX_FX=fullscreen set, but demos do not run fullscreen with
hardware acceleration but slow X11 instead. Running glinfo (from mesa
demos) will verify this:

Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2.030300
GL_VERSION: 1.2 Mesa 3.3
...
GL_RENDERER: Mesa X11
GL_VENDOR: Brian Paul
GLU_VERSION: 1.1 Mesa 3.3

Questions:

- how is the renderer (X11/Glide/smth else) actually chosen ?
- if by configuring, where, how ?
- does Mesa has to be compiled to support glide ?
- if so, how can I find out what Mandrake's Mesa binaries are compiled to
support ?
- how does actual X-server fit in the picture ?
- could the reason be XFree 4.0.1 ? 
- or alternatively, forget the questions, just give me 
shortest-path-walk-through what to do to get that tuxkart working with
Voodoo2 :)

List of packages installed:
# rpm -qa | egrep -i 'mesa|3dfx|glide'
Mesa-common-3.3-14mdk
Mesa-demos-3.3-14mdk
Device3Dfx-2.3.4-7mdk
Glide_V2-devel-2.53-4mdk
Glide_V2-2.53-4mdk
Mesa-3.3-14mdk

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