G400 DRI?
Hello, I've just upgraded my XFree 3.3.6 to 4.0.1 using these wonderful
packages, and haven't had any problems. Except one... I need the DRI
driver for my G400. Specifically, I'm trying to use Matrox's
binary-distributed one, and as it turns out, they only distribute a binary
version of the 2D driver (which makes sense, given the DRI's kernel module
nature). The DRI driver is only in source. But I don't want to download
50 megs of XFree86 source on my 28.8 modem. :)
Has anyone built the G400 DRI module against kernel 2.2.17? I don't even
need this for game playing - I need this for my research. 3D graphics
research really sucks on software Mesa. :) Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Or perhaps if I could just get the necessary header files to
build the module myself (I have the kernel source and I can always just
make-kpkg).
Also, in the future, how will DRI modules be packaged? Perhaps there will
be an xfree-server-heards package so that one can simply download their
favorite DRI module's source and then use make-kpkg to build it alongside
their kernel? That seems to me to be the simplest way...
Many thanks in advance.
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