Re: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.6-1 + libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6-1 working on PowerBook5.8?
Stephane, Michel, and All
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:22:38AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 20:49 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> >
> > I cannot risk to break the usability of a PowerBook5,8 - so before
> > upgrading both packages to 7.6-1: Did someone out there get both
> > mentioned packages, version 7.6-1, to work without problems on a
> > Powerbook5.8?
> >
> > See bugs #549588 #550691 for more ...
> >
> > Problem is I don't find my currently installed, more or less working
> > versions 7.4-2 anywhere as packages any more. Which means, after
> > upgrading, there seems to be a problem to go back to the version
> > currently being installed.
>
> What exactly is your concern? If it's just the availability of .debs for
> the old versions, there's always dpkg-repack.
Bingo: dpkg-repack will solve my problem: I didn't know about that
package. Thanks for letting me know about it, Michel.
My problem was that the xorg packages, here on a PowerBook5,8, are
hopefully all to their very latest versions from unstable - except for
the libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx packages, which I kept at
7.4-2 because of the bugs I was mentioning before.
But because I have slight usability problems with that mixed versions
scenario on the PB5,8 - e.g. criticalmass, a game that uses OpenGL, is
very slow, and basically unusable here over the last times I used it -
I became curious what happens if I also upgrade libgl1-mesa-dri and
libgl1-mesa-glx to their latest versions. With the fall-back option
via dpkg-repack I can do that now.
I'll report back later on about the results to the old thread we had
on a few weeks ago ("Hard Crash Xserver on Powerbook (Pismo) Sid")
Thanks, Michel
Thanks, Stephane
Regards
Wolfgang
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