On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 13:11:02 -0700 (PDT) Meph Istopheles Meph Istopheles <meph@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Raquel, > > > > > > Duh...video cassette recorder...? Huh? > > > > > I hope you're talking "Beta"! > > > > South East Asian fighting fish? Drivers is what I'm on > > > about;-). > > > Oh! Drivers! I just got back from Paradise and talk about > > drivers! There are some real "nutsoes" out there! You just > > can't believe it! > > Heh. You know, I felt groggy when I'd posted this originally & > thought that I might have left out some info. Now I'm convinced > of it;-). > > Let's see.... > > I've a Diamond Viper 770D video card & RH 7.2's most recent > Riva tnt2 driver, as well as the most recent RH mesa drivers > installed. > > So, I go to fool round with a first-person shooter demo, Return > to Castle Wolfenstein, I'd downloaded a short while back to find > that it won't run because it can't find libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.1 gl > driver. OK. But I don't really know much about openGL & > Google's not really helping me out much in figuring out why this > game won't run. > > But looking at the error, I find that it recommends I use this > switch: > > +set r_allowSoftwareGL 1 > > Hmm. OK. Ran it that way, & the game opened, but the best I > could get was a single frame ever three seconds:-|. > > So, back to Google, & I find that one of the few things > recommends I make a link: > > ln -sf /usr/lib/GL/libGL.so.1.2.030402 /usr/lib/libGL.so > > Of course, that didn't work, as there is not /usr/lib/GL &, > naturally, I'd overwritten the origingal /usr/lib/libGL.so (gotta > find one of those), so the game no longer opens at all now;-). > > So, I'm looking for more info than I can find on Google > concerning a connection between Riva tnt2 & any MesaVoodooGL or > just Riva tnt2 & any VoodooGL drivers. > > ...Is that any clearer? > > Meph <giggle> I'm sorry, Meph. I still don't know any more about "video" and "drivers" than what I told you. Is this one of those times you'd like to "throttle" me? -- Raquel ============================================================ A man cannot utter 2 or 3 sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought. --Ralph Waldo Emerson To unsubcribe send e-mail with the word unsubscribe in the body to: Linux-Anyway-Request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe