Re: Having problems with getting Nvidia hardware to work...

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Katie Lucas wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:33:28PM -0700, Steve Baker wrote:
>
> > Katie Lucas wrote:
> >
> > > OK, I've got a box with a GeForce2 in it. I'm testing out whether
> > > debian is a good platform for supporting it.
> > >
> > > I've installed Mesa. I've installed Glut. I've installed nvidia's X 
> > > drivers.
> >
> > Don't install Mesa.  Mesa is the driver of last resort if a 'real' OpenGL
> > implementation does not exist.
> >
> > Uninstall Mesa - then go to www.nvidia.com head over to downloads and 
> > install
> > their Linux drivers.
>
>
> I thought I had to install Mesa first to get the OpenGL header files?
>
> Or do they come in one of the Nvidia packages I've missed?

I don't recall whether they do or not.  However, the ones that come with
Mesa are always way out of date - so if you want the latest OpenGL
extensions, you'll need to get headers from elsewhere.

The trendy way to get really up to date headers and to use a nicer
API for querying extensions is to use the 'glew' package (which is on
SourceForge).


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