I ran each of the mesademos and noted whether they work/don't work. Where they don't, the error message is given. progs/demos: arbfplight Sorry, this demo requires GL_ARB_vertex_program arbocclude Sorry, this demo requires the GL_ARB_occlusion_query extension bounce works clearspd works cubemap no* drawpix works fire works fogcoord works fplight Sorry, this demo requires GL_NV_vertex_program gamma works gears works ;-) geartrain no* glinfo works gloss works gltestperf no* glutfx works ipers works isosurf no* lodbias works morph3d no* multiarb works occlude Sorry, this demo requires the GL_HP_occlusion_test extension paltex Sorry, GL_EXT_paletted_texture not supported pixeltex Sorry, GL_SGIS_pixel_texture not supported by this renderer. pointblast works, but crashes after 2 or 3 seconds. System does not freeze, but is unusable (slow reaction, artefacts on screen) ray works readpix works reflect works renormal works shadowtex Sorry, this demo requires the GL_ARB_depth_texture and GL_ARB_shadow extensions spectex works spriteblast Sorry, this demo requires GL_ARB_point_sprite. stex3d works, but slow teapot works terrain works tessdemo works texcyl works texdown works texenv works texobj works trispd works tunnel works tunnel2 tunnel2: via_tex.c:428: viaSwapOutWork: Assertion `sz == vmesa->total_alloc[heap]' failed. Aborted winpos no* *freeglut ERROR: Function called without first calling 'glutInit'. progs/samples: accum works bitmap1 works bitmap2 works blendeq works blendxor works copy No image file cursor works depth works eval works fog works font works line works logo works nurb works oglinfo works olympic works overlay Overlay not available point works prim works quad works rgptoppm works select works shape works sphere works star works stencil works stretch No image file texture No image file tri works wave works Where it says "No image file", I tried to give girl.rgb as an argument, but the demo did not accept that. progs/xdemos glthreads Sorry, this program wasn't compiled with PTHREADS defined. glxdemo works glxgears works glxgears_fbconfig no *) glxheads works glxinfo works glxpbdemo Error: GLX 1.3 or 1.4 not available glxpixmap works glxswapcontrol Floating point exception manywin works offset works opencloseopen works (closes itself after 2 secs though, no error message) *) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GLX 1.3 is not supported. GLX_SGIX_fbconfig is supported. The following fbconfigs meet the requirements. The first one will be used. 0x022 TrueColor 32 0 y n y n 8 8 8 8 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 y 0x024 TrueColor 32 0 y n y n 8 8 8 8 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 y 0x028 TrueColor 32 0 y n y n 8 8 8 8 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 y 0x02a TrueColor 32 0 y n y n 8 8 8 8 16 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 y X Error of failed request: GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest Major opcode of failed request: 144 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 16 (X_GLXVendorPrivate) Serial number of failed request: 21 Current serial number in output stream: 35 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wasnt able to compile the rest of the xdemos, sorry.