Re: Debian's XFree86 4.2 and SiS vs. DRI
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 16:13, Thomas Winischhofer wrote:
> I finally updated to 4.2.1 (-4) from 4.1.0.1 and found that DRI on the
> SiS chipsets does not work anymore.
>
> My box is running kernel 2.4.19 (with xfs patch, otherwise vanilla) and
> the latest XFree 4.2.1-4 packages from unstable.
>
> The (XFree) SiS driver enables DRI correctly, but glxgears says "Direct
> Rendering: No". Consequently, indirect rendering is used.
>
> Replacing the 4.2.1-4 xlibsmesa3 package with the one from stable
> (4.1.0-16) makes DRI work again. To be more exact, replacing 4.2.1's
> sis_dri.so with the 4.1 version is enough.
>
> A comparison of the source between the 4.1 and 4.2 version (as regards
> sis_dri.so) shows as good as no changes, except in the (I)Makefile(s).
>
> 1) Has anyone managed to make DRI on the SiS chipsets work with Debian's
> 4.2 packages?
Is SiS DRI even supposed to work in 4.2.x? I know that it most
definitely won't work in 4.3.0 because it hasn't been maintained in a
while.
> 2) Any clue on why this happens?
Does running glxinfo with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose give a hint? Otherwise,
you may want to post to dri-devel.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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