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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:49:06 +0100
From: Peter Allen <P DOT Allen AT pallen DOT dabsol DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djgpp & MesaGL problem
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I only use mesa under linux, so am no expert on
the dos port, but
http://www.mesa3d.org/lxr/source/README.DOS
says that there is no vesa support for djgpp yet,
so I guess that this is your problem.  Try converting
the examples to mode 13hex, as support is added 
for this.

                Peter Allen

Faisal Alobaid wrote:
> 
> Peter Allen wrote:
> 
> > Yes,
> > get the mesa library from
> > http://www.mesa3d.org
> > It has a Makefile.dj
> > Note this is for dos not win.
> >
> >                 Peter Allen
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I got the base and the djgpp version of Mgl library .. i've installed it
> and used
> dmake for the examples first of all i had a problem with getopt.c which
> was
> including a file called getopt.ch .. so i smiled and i changed it to
> #include <getopt.h>
> after that i tried to dmake again it started giving me warnings i
> ignored them
> at last i have the exe ready : ) "Yes" now to run it .. heh i got this
> error
> 
> FATAL ERROR: Unable to load system font: Couldn't find font file
> 
> execuse me ??? what is that i just started ... bah .. lets try some
> other source sample
> same thing that was the in scitech\examples\mgl directory.. i said lets
> try the opengl
> directory thats scitech\examples\opengl ... compile fix what needs to be
> fixed
> ahhhh at last now lets run the exe's .. ---- nothing is showing on the
> screen totaly
> blank ... now what i started testing the vid mode one by one .. and i
> noticed that it works only with 1 page vid mode ???!?!?! whats that i
> have no clue and i get a
> 3 frames per second .... + stuck with about 5 vid modes while i have
> more than 20?
> whats going on can someone please help : )
> 
> Sorry for making this such a long artical