MESA GL distros

[Mojoman]

Right ive got a TNT2 M64 getting a GEFORCE2 MX

I tried the nVIDIA drivers but no luck - What distor supports 3d acceleration well? (these are the ones i have)

Redhat 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1
Mandrake 6.0, 6.5, 7.2, 8.0
Slackware 7.1

Like ones that have the 3d Acceleration (nVIDIA) instaleld - or is this only the mandrake ones and if so which versions have it?

[ken257]

I am using SuSE 7.2 and dled/installed the latest linux drivers from nvidia's web site. They work great and were very simple to install. Just 2 rpm's and then execute 1 command line after that. The gameplay is awesome!

[David]

I use SuSE 7 and I had to update XFree86 from 4.o to 4.1. I then installed the source code with a few commands, edited my config file and I have never had dropped frames in Quake 3

The drivers are a little unstable, however and It takes me a few tries to get 1024x768, or it defaults back to 640x480.

[mcrites]

Make sure that you are not using mesa GL libs. This will not work right with the nvidia drivers. The nvidia drivers come with its own Gl libs, so if the system finds the mesa libs first, it might and will try to use them. Do /sbin/ldconfig -v | grep GL as root, and see if there are 2 entries, if there are, you need to get rid of your old ones. I believe that nvidia installs via rpm and tar.gz into the /usr/X11R6/lib/ directory.

[David]

if you use the source .ta.gz drivers then by typing 'make' linux will remove the conflicting libs

[mcrites]

I am not sure about this, I will look at the Makefile tonight to verify this. Make is a GNU program that reads a text file caled Makefile, and follows the directions in there to compile the source code from .c files to object files (.o), and then links these .o files together with the necassary libs that the program requires. Most modern source distributions use a bash script called configure to genereate these makefiles automatically, based on certain conditions that your system is in. I think that nvidia however provides the makefile, and probably if it does remove the libs, it probably reads the /etc/ld.so.conf file, and searchs for *GL.so.* and removes them? I will post back later.

[David]

Originally posted by mcrites
I am not sure about this, I will look at the Makefile tonight to verify this. Make is a GNU program that reads a text file caled Makefile, and follows the directions in there to compile the source code from .c files to object files (.o), and then links these .o files together with the necassary libs that the program requires. Most modern source distributions use a bash script called configure to genereate these makefiles automatically, based on certain conditions that your system is in. I think that nvidia however provides the makefile, and probably if it does remove the libs, it probably reads the /etc/ld.so.conf file, and searchs for *GL.so.* and removes them? I will post back later.

You are probably right. I usually run ldconfig after installing anything that uses libs