[Mesa-dev] Help for a beginner

[Ian Romanick]

On 10/05/2011 11:09 PM, Romain Failliot wrote:
> 2011/9/27 Romain Failliot<romain.failliot at foolstep.com>:
>> I'll get my hand in the code now.
>> Be right back as soon as I can run my own mesa code :)
>
> Sorry for the delay, I lost my internet connection for a week...
> So I started compiling mesa thanks to the site Benjamin Bellec gave to
> me http://forums.fedora-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=51681
> And with this simple command line:
>
> $ ./autogen.sh --with-gallium-drivers=nouveau --with-dri-drivers=
>
> Everything went well. (I'm not sure about the empty parameter for the
> dri drivers though)
>
> But my first problem occured: although I changed my LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
> graphic drivers are still those from nvidia. Here is the result of the
> glxinfo:
>
> $ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version string"
> OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 280.13

You will have to *completely* uninstall the NVIDIA closed-source driver 
in order to use the Mesa driver.  NVIDIA installs their own kernel 
module and their own libGL, so it is impossible for both to live on the 
same system.