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Re: X sort of works



Phil Fraering wrote:

> > > ahh I must say this is good, of course now I am wondering about getting
> > > dri working, just for the heck of it, to see how good this card is at 3d
> > > stuff :)
> >
> > It doesn't work yet, please be patient.
> 
> In the old 4.0.1 phase 5 version, I'm able to run xlock-gl screensavers and
> giram-gnome and the like; wouldn't that indicate that 3d is working? Or is
> it using a software-only approach?

Exactly, that's using GLX.


> > > Branden does not have powermac debs up there currently, who knows maybe
> > > he cant build it either.
> >
> > Or maybe there are no problems he'd like us to test possible solutions
> > for.
> 
> I tried the new 4.0.2 x last night; it crashed hard.

What hardware?

Anyway, this is probably an upstream problem; if the debs don't work for you,
the best would probably be to build them yourself using Ani's rsync tree.


> I guess I'll live.

Good choice! :)


Michel


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)  \  CS student and free software enthusiast
Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \   member of XFree86 and The DRI Project



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