Re: Will binaries for glibc2.2 work on the current unstable (with glibc2.3.x) ?
Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 05:24:31PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote:
I have a ATI Radeon FireGL X1 128MB that I would like to get dri working
on. I know that we recently went to glibc2.3 in unstable (I'm not sure
about testing).
Sid has had it for >6 months, sarge got it fairly recently.
Woah! I don't remember well anymore! Yes, you are probably right that
Sid got it >6 months ago. I work with a lot of Sarge systems and some
stable ones + unstable for my own machines. But I really did forget that
we have had glibc2.3 some time ago. I worry that I am using too much
/dev/brain in my college courses! :)
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I'm fairly sure that programs built against glibc 2.2 should be
guaranteed to work with glibc 3.3. Barring bugs in gcc or glibc, I
guess. If it doesn't, though, file a bug. Not that it does *not* work
the other way round; programs built against glibc 2.3 generally don't
work on glibc 2.2 systems.
You are right once again sir. The binary drivers did work with my
glibc2.3. Well atleast they worked on *my* 'unstable' system with
glibc2.3. I say "my" since I have some things like some compatibility
stuff which might have helped. But by and large, I agree with your
conclusion of compatibility between glibc2.2 and glibc2.3 in that order.
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It's worth a shot. As I said above, the glibc thing should be fine. I
don't know about XFree86, but I'd think they'd have that sort of
compatibility, too.
>>I also read somewhere else that the Xfree4.2 binary driver works with
>>Xfree4.3,
Well this part didn't work out that good. I thought that it should have,
but it didn't. I had to remove the package 'xserver-xfree86', remove the
penguinppc.org repo. from my sources.list, do an apt-get update and get
xfree4.2 for the driver to work.
Also, for those who might need this information for their Radeon9200+
currently-dri-unsuppported cards, I had to do some things for the driver
to work correctly.
Following the quite good but unclear in some parts documentation for the
driver on the ati.com website, I got my driver to work. I had to grab
the kernel-sources and get my kernel config file from /boot. I had to
recompile the kernel. I had to do this and then make a custom kernel
module from the sources that ati provided. This was probably because my
kernel was a little customised and I had only the custom kernel-image
package. Recompiling the special ati kernel char/drm module required me
to have the header packages and what-not else from the kernel source, so
I just recompiled the whole thing and got a bunch of packages from
'make-kpkg'. Then following the instructions from ati's readme got me my
driver. Oh yeah, and its really screaming fast (at least to me).
Previously I used to get ~330fps and now I get something like ~6080 fps
so I hope to make use of it and make it worth the trouble of recompiling
and other things.
Thanks for the prompt help,
--
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Electrical Engineering Sysop
Brigham Young University, UT-84602
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