Well, after 2 days of fiddleing, compiling and recompiling, I finally
got mesag3-glide to compile and installed it. Things work good. Most
of the demos that come with mesa work, and q3demoTEST also works,
kinda. It's a bit jerky, and I don't know why. Don't know whether
it's my computer, or something else. Anyways, for those of you who
might be interested, I've attached a text file describing what I did.
It goes into a bit of detail, since I aimed it at newbie level, so
please don't be offended if it seems to go into excrusating detail.
Any comment and suggests are also welcome.
Marshal
1. Download, compile, and install device3dfx-source. I have a custom
kernel with both alsa and device3dfx modules. kernel-package is so
nice.
2. Compile and install the Glide2x Packages. The glide3x package
doesn't work with Mesa-3.0.
i. Download source RPM from
http://linux.3dfx.com/open_source/download/srpm/Glide_V3-2.60-10.src.rpm.
ii. Have alien and rpm installed.
iii. Install source rpm. rpm -i Glide_V3-2.60-10.src.rpm.
This should install the sources under in /usr/src/redhat.
iv. edit /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/Glide_V2-2.60.spec.
a. Change the line
export CC=i386-glibc20-linux-gcc
to
export CC=gcc
b. Change the line
export CC=egcs
to
export CC=egcc
Here are my diffs.
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS$ diff Glide_V3-2.60.spec Glide_V3-2.60.spec~
36c36
< export CC=gcc
---
> export CC=i386-glibc20-linux-gcc
42c42
< export CC=egcc
---
> export CC=egcs
v. Make sure that you have xlib6g-dev installed.
vi. build the rpms. rpm -ba
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/Glide_V2-2.60.spec.
vii. assuming that works (I hope I haven't forgotten
anything. I didn't write it down when I did it.) you should
have Glide_V3-2.60-10.i386.rpm and Glide2x_SDK-2.1-10.i386.rpm
sitting in /usr/src/redhate/RPMS/i386. Debianize these with
alien. alien Glide_V3-2.60-10.i386.rpm and
alien Glide2x_SDK-2.1-10.i386.rpm.
viii. Install the debs. dpkg -i glide-v3_2.60-11_i386.deb and
dpkg -i glide2x-sdk_2.1-11_i386.deb.
3. Now download and compile the mesag3 package.
i. make sure that you have as deb-src line in
/etc/apt/sources.list. I have
deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stable main contrib
non-free.
ii. get the source as root, otherwise the permissions will not be
right. In fact, do all of the following as root.
apt-get source mesag3
iii. cd mesa-3.0/debian
iv. rename rules.bak to rules and control.bak to control. Take
appropriate backup precautions. (Well, you don't have to. You can
always just re-download the source. But it's good practice anyways.)
mv rules.bak rules
v. edit rules. remove the comments from the first three lines
after ifeq ($(ARCHITECTURE), i386). Here are the diffs.
/usr/src/mesa-3.0/debian# diff rules~ rules
51,53c51,53
< # ( cd src && make clean && make linux-386-glide && make clean
&& make linux-386-glide-static )
< # ( cd src-glu && make clean && make linux-386-glide && make
clean && make linux-386-glide-static )
< # mv lib/libMesa* lib/glide
---
> ( cd src && make clean && make linux-386-glide && make clean
&& make linux-386-glide-static )
> ( cd src-glu && make clean && make linux-386-glide && make
clean && make linux-386-glide-static )
> mv lib/libMesa* lib/glide
vi. make rules executable. chmod +x rules
vii. cd .. (Change back into the mesa-3.0 directory)
viii. Make mklib.glide5 executable. chmod +x mklib.glide5
ix. Make sure that you have the following package installed.
lesstif-dev
libc5
libc5-altdev
altgcc
x. compile the package. In the mesa-3.0 directory
dpkg-buildpackage -b
and wait. Well, on a P200MMX it's quite a wait.
I get the following error at the end of all this waiting.
dpkg-deb: control directory has bad permissions 2755 (must be >=0755
and <=0775)
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2
To fix this I changed the permissions of
mesa-3.0/debian/tmp/DEBIAN to 0755.
chmod 0755 debian/tmp/DEBIAN (from the mesa-3.0
directory.)
To finish off you have to manually run the debian/rules
makefile from the mesa-3.0 directory
make -f debian/rules binary
xi. Now you should have the following debs in the directory above
mesa-3.0:
mesag3_3.0-1_i386.deb
mesag-dev_3.0-1_i386.deb
mesag3-glide_3.0-1_i386.deb
mesag-glide-dev_3.0-1_i386.deb
mesa-doc_3.0-1_all.deb
