Re: [Plib-users] Compiled, but can't execute...

[Sebastian U. <ud...@ha...>]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, _l...@li... (Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono) wrote:
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:32:21 +0100
> To: Steve Baker <sjb...@ai...>
> From: _l...@li... (Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono)
> CC: pli...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Plib-users] Compiled, but can't execute...
> 
> > Downloading a new version of Mesa should fix it.
> 
> well... i installed the official Mesa-4.0.1, it installed itself in /usr/
> local, witch AFAIK is wrong place... so i moved it to /usr, but it doesn'
> t work!
> 
> i run glxinfo and it says that i am NOT in direct rendering mode.
> instead DRIsetup tells me i am, but it's a lie, because when i try to pla
> y a GL game (es now they at least start), *any* gl game (even tuxracer th
> at before worked fine...), i got <1fps!

Aaaargh ... seems like my ISP had some technical problems yesterday so that
a mail I sent to the list was rejected.

I have sent it again - *PLEASE* read it. Let me quote a part of it:

> Please grab the RPM package that contains the fix here:
>
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/Mesa-3.4.2-9.i386.rpm
>
> There is no need to install Mesa from sources. That's not a good idea if
> you use DRI unless you know excactly what you are doing. As a general rule,
> always use your distributions packages wherever possible unless you know
> what you are doing :).

If you want hardware rendering again, the only solution is to find out
what files you installed (difficult), remove them (important) and grab the
RPM package from above and install it.

I can't say it often enough:

*Always* use your distributions packages wherever possbile unless you are
*absolutely* sure what you are doing.

If you had read the Mesa and DRI documentations, you would know that you may
only use the Mesa version shipped with XFree if you want to get hardware
acceleration. I do not expect that you have read the appropiate documents,
but if you haven't, it is *highly* recommended to use the packages which
your distribution provides !


- Sebastian