Re: Direct Rendering with Debian Xorg
On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 the mental interface of
David Baron told:
> I had been using the dri-trunk packages over xfree for a while to
> enable DRI on my ATI mach64 clunker. These dri-trunk packages
> intalled over xfree but were in fact xorg based but the xorg would
> not load so I continued with xfree and it ran fine this way.
>
> I recently went over to Xorg off Sid. Easiest upgrade imaginable.
> This Xorg supercedes the dri-trunk packages. I replaced these with
> xlibmesa and the DRM off the DRI project's CVS. After minor
> surgery over gcc version "magic" conflicts, got the DRM modules to
> load up fine. Direct rendering does not work.
>
> Has anyone had success with this and can point me in the right
> direction. (The dri-trunk packages are no longer maintained--I
> even tried putting them back but it still did not work so
> something in the Xorg itself?)
DRI runs perfect with Xorg out of the sidbox. Use a most actual 2.6.
kernel and you'll be happy. Gents, why are you messing up with that
obsolete dri-trunk stuff?
Elimar
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