[GRASS5] NVIZ and GLX: hardware openGL

[Stephen C. Martin]

Hello all,
I only subscribed to this list because I'm interested in tracking the development
of 5.0, but I *did* recently set up my nVidia GeForce2 in linux.

In short, the nVidia cards will not work correctly with MESA.  nVidia has their own
opengl drivers for linux and it's necessary to use them instead.  The nVidia site
has instructions but I found mandrakeuser.org to have better ones.  It's a matter
of making a couple of edits to the xconfig-4 file and redirecting the sym links to
point to the nvidia drivers rather than the mesas.  I was able to do it only a few
days after first installing linux so I'm sure you'll have no problems.

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Stephen C. Martin

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Helena wrote:

> Markus did you get your problem with the NVIDIA card resolved?
> I am getting a new machine and I am considering Elsa Gloria III (NVIDIA Quadro2
> Pro)
> so I am wondering how it will run with MESA.
> Anybody has any experience with this card?
>
> thanks,
>
> Helena
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > just received a new NVIDIA Geforce compliant video card.
> > I had to upgrade the Xserver and activated hardware-openGL
> > on my linux box.
> >
> > NVIZ get's *extremely* fast!
> >
> > However, the window is partly disturbed, a sort of backing store
> > problem. But all the Mesa examples have the same problem.
> > Is there someone with experience here? Maybe off-list as
> > it seems to be a non-GRASS problem.
> >
> > I am using Xfree4.0.2, Mesa (without mesasoft and glx) on
> > Linux. If this is running, openGL will get exciting!
> >
> >  Markus
> >
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