Re: [Mesa3d-users] for Brian and Kevin (and all other GL people)

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

Karim Forsthofer wrote:
> Thanks both for your help, I will try that out.
> He.. He.. I have a 3dfx chip on my card (you are right Kevin).
> An old PCI Vodoo Banshee Card with 16 MB Memory. 
> Why is Hardware acceleration in Mesa switched off by default, what`s the use of 
> that ? (3D acc. is what I`m looking for). 

Because few people use 3dfx hardware anymore and enabling the Glide driver by 
default seems to cause problems in general.


> And other "thing" that I don`t undetstood about Mesa (special Ver. 4.0.1)
> Why are old the Mesa Libs and includes in special directorys 
> like /usr/local/lib/GL etc.... everytime after the Installation I copied the 
> whole libs to /user/lib and Includes to /usr/include . I saw that this has 
> changd with ver. 5 .. 

I'm not sure I understand.  If you use the old-style Makefiles, nothing has 
changed.  If you use configure/make, then the libs wind up burried in the Mesa 
src tree (which I don't know how to change).


> Anyway.. the Mesa3D Project is a nice piece of code. Well done. I love it.
> 
> 
> I think there was no Glide driver etc. to install on the Slackware CD (and no 
> Mesa). 
> Kevin..you wrote that I need to make a new install with configure with-glide 
> and any other settings (3d now). But I have an AMD K6-2 CPU with 500 Mhz, it 
> supports 3DNOW. What to do ? 
> (I never saw these Settings in any Toturial etc. , but it is very good to know 
> it right now). 
> The Glide Part is not really clear for me. Why not install a real OpenGL driver 
> (Utah GL).. Does this mean, everytime when I execute a GL file, I get Glide (as 
> OpenGL emulator ?) *g* ...can somebody explain that to me ?

The Utah GL project is long dead.  If you want hardware acceleration, the DRI 
project is more relevant.


> OpenGL is an other 
> API then GLide. 
> O.k and one last question...
> MesaDemos come up with GLut (don`t know wich version).. but I heard that Glut 
> is very old and need heavly Update support.

Who said that?  I've recently added a new function or two to GLUT 
(glutGetProcAddress, for example).  Other than that, GLUT seems fine as-is.


> I saw the page about freeglut. Is 
> this a better solution to work with glut lib. (what you think about that 
> freeglut stuff, and what is diffrent from the original glut?).
> Glut is important for me, because I whant to use PLIP with Glut. 

I think FreeGLUT and GLUT are basically equivalent at this point.  I don't 
know anything abuot PLIP.


> I like also low traffic mailinglist. I subscribed by the Crystal Space mailing 
> list, and I get every day about 70 emails. I don`t like that. Mailinglists are 
> nice for small projects with a few people. But for large Projects like crystal 
> space or Mesa, there should be some good Forums (I don`t like this sourceforge 
> bulletinboards). 
> 
> 
> Good night ..GL coders 
> Karim F. 

-Brian