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Bug#333973: xserver-xorg: patch to enable DRI support for 9500 and newer cards



On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:36:10AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 10:11 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:34:07AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 20:34 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > the attached patch for the radeon driver enables DRI support with Radeon
> > > > 9500 or newer cards. It does not include a DRI driver, but it makes it
> > > > possible for users to build their own Mesa and DRI CVS versions which
> > > > includes the r300 driver [1], and use it with the Xorg server provided
> > > > by Debian.
> > > 
> > > This is already available in xserver-xorg 6.8.99.900.dfsg.1-0pre1 in
> > 
> > Well, but is it built and working for all arches ? My powerpc packages last
> > time i tried where not upto it, and not everybody likes to run experimental.
> 
> Be that as it may, I think David has made it pretty clear he doesn't
> want to do backports like this in favour of getting 6.9/7.0 into sid
> ASAP, which I support FWIW.

In the meantime, i built a local version with this patch on, which i will try
to find the time to test, and it is most assuredly nice to have as comparison
or something. I was not able to find time to work on the 6.9/7.0 packages
though :/

Friendly,

Sven Luther




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