Re: xorg-6.9.0

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 the mental interface of
Ruben told:

> 
> At Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:13:22 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > 
> > last night I upgraded to xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2. First I had to do a
> > ldconfig by hand, because startx was complaining about missing libs.
> > 
> > Starting X then freezes my PowerBook5,6 completely. No net, no
> > console.  So I had to hard reset the machine. I tried the following:
> 
> Just reporting that this is working fine on my iBook (PowerBook6,7),
> with an ATI M11 NV [FireGL Mobility T2e] (Mobility Radeon 9550 aka
> Apple).  I didn't need to change anything on my configuration either.
> 
> > Installing libgl1-mesa-dri in the hope r300 is used with radeon
> > driver -> frozen machine.
> 
> I wanted to try this myself, since 3d acceleration would be nice. Apt
> tells me the package is not available though (also checked
> experimental). Did you install this from source?
You have to compile the mesa sources: apt-get source mesa. For me
I've updated to 6.4.1.

Elimar


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