Re: Compil on mandrake

On Saturday 21 September 2002 00:23, Tarax wrote:
> Le Vendredi 20 Septembre 2002 21:41, Harri Pasanen a écrit :
> ...
>
> > I just upgraded my machine, running Mandrake Cooker, (close to
> > 9.0), with KDE 3.0.3, qt3.0.5, Xfree86 4.2.1, gcc 3.2.
> >
> > Good news is that kpovmodeler compiles out of the box.
>
> Hi Harri,
>
> I've never managed to have KPovModeler compile on my mdk box :-$
> Did you installed rc3? Did you use standard commands?

Yes, just 'configure' although I might have setup the QTDIR environment 
variable out of habit to /usr/lib/qt3

> I've just set up mdk 9.0 rc3 on my laptop, it would be great to have
> the best pov-ray modeler running on it ! ;-)
> Furthermore, I'd like to try to use it to... finaly... work on a
> proposition for the website design. IIRC KPovModeler will get in 1.0
> with the official release of kde 3.1, & I thought it would be a good
> date too for a new server.
>
> >  Bad news is related to my new video card, ATI Radeon 7500.
> >
> > X freezes completely when kpovmodeler starts.  Looks like the
> > OpenGL dri drivers are causing this, as after disabling the OpenGL
> > (by forcing PMRenderManager::hasOpenGL() to return false)
> > kpovmodeler starts up ok.
> >
> > I wonder now how can I make kpovmodeler to use software only
> > OpenGL?   I would not like to completely disable DRI, as Tuxracer
> > works fine.  ;-)
> >
> > I'll give a shot to CVS snapshot of radeon dri drivers as well,
> > just in case something has been fixed.
> >
> > -Harri
>
> I've another box with a Radeon 8500, hope I won't have the same pbs.
> I've planned to update it to rc3 this we, I'll report my experience
> about KPovModeler.
> Did you try ATI's drivers?
>

To my knowledge ATI does not have drivers for Radeon 7500, it only has 
some drivers for 8500, which I believe to be 2D drivers.

To be honest, after my experiences I would strongly suggest a NVidia 
card for anyone running Linux and desiring 3D.   Or maybe to shell out 
$99 for xigraphics.

-Harri




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