[Linux-Anyway] Re: GL stuff
- From: Raquel Rice <raquel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 13:25:03 -0700
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
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