Re: [ltp] Re: Fwd: Working 3D acceleration on IBM ThinkPad T23 ;-)
On 1/5/06, Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 03 Januar 2006 05:24 schrieb Nate Bargmann:
>
> > > The xlibmesa-dri package in Sid provides the necessary radeon_dri.so
> > > file and places it in the right place. It supports several other
> > > cards, but not the savage (yet), unfortunately.
> >
> > Let me add that as of today, Jan 2, 2006, that installing the
> > libgl1-mesa-dri package will remove the xlibmesa-gl package, but won't
> > break Xorg like a couple of days ago. The savage_dri.so file is
> > provided by libgl1-mesa-dri and performance is unchanged from the
> > manual installation method on my T23.
> >
> > Painless 3D on the T23!
>
> Hello,
>
> does anyone know the reason for those different DRI driver packages and
> the reason, why savage is not included in xlibmesa-dri?
>
Until xorg 6.9/7.0 the savage driver was not dri enabled. Also prior
to xorg 7.0, mesa was included as port of the xorg ball of packages.
with the new modular Xorg, mesa is supplied directly by the upstream
source. The change in packages must be your distro's way of handing
that I suspect.
Alex
> Regards,
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