[ltp] OT: Google Release GoogleEarth Linux

[Alex Deucher]

On 6/16/06, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> / "Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> | On 6/16/06, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> |> / "Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> |> | Direct rendering seems to be enabled and working fine.  as to why
> |> | google earth is slow, I'm not sure.  perhaps it's hitting a lot of
> |> | unaccelerated paths.  You might want to try the r300 driver from cvs.
> |> | the cvs version supports a lot more extensions now, and Brian recently
> |> | checked in some google earth related fixes to some of the core mesa
> |> | stuff.
> |>
> |> CVS where? r300.sf.net has scary warnings about development having
> |> moved.
> |
> | mesa cvs:
> | http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building
>
> [ Apologies to the list if this is drifting OT ]
>
> Some struggling to get it building (Mesa build seems to look for
> stddef.h in a bunch of places but not in /usr/include/linux which is
> where it is. I fixed that with a symlink.)
>
> Eventually, I got to:
>
> mklib: Making Linux shared library:  libGL.so.1.2
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXxf86vm
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> and I'm stumped.

You need the xorg devel headers.  grab the xorg-dev packages.

Alex

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