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diff --git a/docs/faq.html b/docs/faq.html index 7ae65e63c2f..b93d5007dc0 100644 --- a/docs/faq.html +++ b/docs/faq.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ <center> <h1>Mesa Frequently Asked Questions</h1> -Last updated: 17 November 2004 +Last updated: 21 October 2004 </center> <br> @@ -39,14 +39,14 @@ See the </a><a href="http://www.opengl.org/">OpenGL website</a> for more information. </p> <p> -Mesa 5.x supports the OpenGL 1.4 specification. +Mesa 6.x supports the OpenGL 1.5 specification. </p> <h2>1.2 Does Mesa support/use graphics hardware?</h2> <p> -Yes. Specifically, Mesa serves as the OpenGL core for the open-source -XFree86/DRI OpenGL drivers. See the <a href="http://dri.sf.net/">DRI +Yes. Specifically, Mesa serves as the OpenGL core for the open-source DRI +drivers for XFree86/X.org. See the <a href="http://dri.sf.net/">DRI website</a> for more information. </p> <p> @@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ operating systems today. Still, Mesa serves at least these purposes: </p> <ul> -<li>Mesa is used as the core of the open-source XFree86/DRI hardware drivers. +<li>Mesa is used as the core of the open-source XFree86/X.org DRI + hardware drivers. </li> <li>Mesa is quite portable and allows OpenGL to be used on systems that have no other OpenGL solution. @@ -86,8 +87,8 @@ Still, Mesa serves at least these purposes: <h2>1.4 What's the difference between"Stand-Alone" Mesa and the DRI drivers?</h2> <p> <em>Stand-alone Mesa</em> is the original incarnation of Mesa. -On systems running the X Window System, it does all its rendering through -the Xlib API. +On systems running the X Window System it does all its rendering through +the Xlib API: <ul> <li>The GLX API is supported, but it's really just an emulation of the real thing. @@ -116,21 +117,10 @@ within the DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure): <h2>1.5 How do I upgrade my DRI installation to use a new Mesa release?</h2> <p> -You don't! A copy of the Mesa source code lives inside the XFree86/DRI source -tree and gets compiled into the individual DRI driver modules. -If you try to install Mesa over an XFree86/DRI installation, you'll lose -hardware rendering (because stand-alone Mesa's libGL.so is different than -the XFree86 libGL.so). -</p> -<p> -The DRI developers will incorporate the latest release of Mesa into the -DRI drivers when the time is right. -</p> -<p> -To upgrade, either look for a new release of <a href="http://www.xfree86.org" -target="_parent">XFree86</a> or visit the -<a href="http://dri.sf.net" target="_parent">DRI website</a> to see -if there's newer drivers. +This wasn't easy in the past. +Now, the DRI drivers are included in the Mesa tree and can be compiled +separately from the X server. +Just follow the Mesa <a href="install.html">compilation instructions</a>. </p> @@ -201,7 +191,7 @@ Mesa no longer supports GNU autoconf/automake. Why? </ul> <p> -Now, Mesa again uses a conventional Makefile system (as it did originally). +Now Mesa again uses a conventional Makefile system (as it did originally). Basically, each Makefile in the tree includes one of the configuration files from the config/ directory. The config files specify all the variables for a variety of popular systems. @@ -219,9 +209,9 @@ Mesa's not the solution. <h2><a name="part2">2.4 Where is the GLUT library?</a></h2> <p> -<a name="part2">GLUT (OpenGL Utility Toolkit) is in the separate MesaDemos-x.y.z.tar.gz file. -If you don't already have GLUT installed, you should grab the MesaDemos -package and unpack it before compiling Mesa. +<a name="part2">GLUT (OpenGL Utility Toolkit) is in the separate MesaGLUT-x.y.z.tar.gz file. +If you don't already have GLUT installed, you should grab the MesaGLUT +package and compile it with the rest of Mesa. </a></p> @@ -250,7 +240,7 @@ Mesa version number. version number. </li></ul> <p> -After installing XFree86 and the DRI drivers, some of these files +After installing XFree86/X.org and the DRI drivers, some of these files may be symlinks into the /usr/X11R6/ tree. </p> <p> |