Re: Debian DRI CVS packages ready for testing.
Jules Bean wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:51:14PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:33:19PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > Jules Bean wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > jules@pear [17] LIBGL_DEBUG=1 glxinfo
> > > > > libGL error: dlopen failed: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tdfx_dri.so:
> > > > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > > > libGL error: dlopen failed: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tdfx_dri.so:
> > > > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > > > > display: :0.0 screen:0
> > > > > direct rendering: No
> > > > >
> > > > > A working workaround for me is to ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri
> > > > > to ../modules-dri/dri. It looks like the ModulePath things aren't
> > > > > doing their job:
> > > >
> > > > [snip]
> > > >
> > > > Indeed, the ModulePaths only affect the X server, the clients
> > > > (libGL.so.1.2 to be precise) look for *_dri.so in
> > > > $(ProjectRoot)/lib/modules/dri/ . I guess they should be moved there.
> > > >
> > > Indeed, but from the code, you should be able to set
> > >
> > > LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH
> > >
> > > to point to your *_dri.so files.
> >
> > Yeah, another workaround. :)
> >
> > I just realized that the modules are probably moved from the correct
> > location to the wrong one in debian/rules so that just has to be modified
> > such that only the driver modules get moved to .../modules-dri/drivers/ .
> > If I wasn't at work right now I'd include a patch.
>
> Or, if there's a reason not to want to pollute the modules directory
> which belongs to Branden's packages, libGL could presumably be patched
> to look in the new location?
I don't think that's necessary. All the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/
would belong to xlibmesa3{,-dri} which conflict.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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