Proper way to operate a git build and a regular package-manager installed X at the same time

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 09:22 -0400, Joel Feiner wrote:
> 
> libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.3.0 r300 (screen 0)
> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so
> libGL error: driver exports no extensions (/usr/lib/dri/r300_dri.so: 
> undefined
> symbol: __driDriverExtensions)
> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so
> libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed
> (/usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory)
> libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
> libGL error: reverting to indirect rendering
> 
> ldd `which glxinfo` shows, however, that it's using all the right 
> libraries.

As you can see above, libGL is looking for the drivers
in /usr/lib/dri/ . You can change this default at build time (are you
using the autoconf target for building Mesa?) or override it at runtime
using the LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH variable.


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