Re: [TuxKart-users] RE: Getting Closer

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Carl & Paula Zeilon wrote:
> 
> OK, I appreciate all the help.  I know I'm way over my head now....
> 
> I have all the Mesa RPMs installed (mesa, mesa-common, mesa-common-devel &
> demos)
> 
> I'm running on the nvidia 1.0-1512 drivers (new last week) This is verified
> by seeing the nvidia splash screen.

THat only proves that you have nVidia X-windows drivers - not that OpenGL
is
being driven via nVidia's OpenGL instead of Mesa.

> So far I have not noticed any problems - Tuxracer still runs perfectly
> (even after a reboot).

That *should* be OK then.
 
> Some of the plib demos work and some don't.  Do I need to run these from
> the command line?

Well, I always do.

>  WavingFlagDemo works fine from KDE but, from a terminal
> I just get "command not found". I must be missing something.

Go into that directory and type:

    ./WavingFlagDemo
    ^^
    this part is
    important!

> Steve, the glut.h file is indeed in /usr/include/GL   You are correct about
> /usr/lib/libglut.so however, the libglut.so file is in user/X11
> R6/lib  (several other glut files are also here as well)  A glutfx is in
> /user/X11 R6/bin
> 
> What do I do?  Just move these files?  Some files, all files, 1 file?

I would make a symbolic link from /usr/lib/libglut{whatever} to where the
file actually is...for each one of those libglut files.
 
> Now a more general question, I have been expanding,configuring, & making
> all these programs from /home/downloads   I was under the assumption that
> these could be deleted after a "make install", this is obviously
> wrong.

The PLIB examples programs cannot be 'make install'ed - the idea is that these
are source code examples that you'll want to look at, edit, whatever - so
installing the binaries and deleting the sources is just silly.

All the other things (PLIB itself, TuxKart, etc) can be 'make install'ed and
then deleted if you aren't interested in the beauty and artistry ...even, perhaps,
the *poetry* of our source code.  Just *toss* it aside without another care - no -
really - it's OK...<sniff>  

    :-)

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