Re: Direct Rendering with Debian Xorg
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 12:48:14 +0200
Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> wrote:
> 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 (The dri-trunk packages are no longer maintained--I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
>
First of all, thats where the DRI development is happening. There is also an
issue with DRI and mach64. It's considered insecure so I am guessing that
debian is not including the support. The kernel also doesn't have the dri
drivers for mach64.
> --
> You cannot propel yourself forward by
> patting yourself on the back.
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System
> at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
>
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System
at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
Reply to: