[H-GEN] DRI/MESA Problems.

[Joe Skilton]

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On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:21 pm, David Jericho wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:08:21PM +1000, Joe Skilton wrote:
> > After installing linux-dri I find that Quake 3 finds the linux
> > compatibility libGL.so.1 no problems, but is now trying to use GLIDE to
> > run my overly obviously NOT glide video card, a Radeon 9k Pro.  The
> > reason why this is happening escapes me, and apparently Google too as the
> > sources from there have been quite unrewarding.
>
> Daniel Geriko has been dobbed in, so I'll respond on his behalf.
>
> But it could simply be the version of libGL you have. Mesa used to
> come in two versions, one being Glide driven GL, and the other being
> plain GL through whatever traditional interface is avaiable.

Ok this is what I was thinking also, but because my version of LibGL(The 
version that Quake 3 uses anyway) is part of the Linux Binary 
Compatibility(well, mesa for linux compatibilty) package I was not sure on 
how to continue from there, do you suggest that I find out what version of 
RedHat the linux compatibility uses and try to get a libGL.so.1 to correspond 
with that, or should I try and get my Working UNIX libGL.so.1 to work under 
linux emulation?  Mabye I should just give up :(

> Looks like you've got a glide enabled GL. You could also try changing
> your GL context to something like GLX.

Ok, now this is getting meaty, How do I go about changing my GL context?
Under Unix I had no problems, the libGL.so.1 detects my Non GLIDE card and 
starts GL no problems so as you can see no context changing was neccissary.  
I tried forcing MESA not to use GLIDE but there seems to be little switches 
available for this task, FX_MESA seemed to be the only one that fit the spot, 
and it did nothing :(.

Thankyou to all who replied, I appreciate it.

Cheers,	
	Joe


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