Re: Bug#333973: xserver-xorg: patch to enable DRI support for 9500 and newer cards
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:34:45PM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:41, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > Michel, i don't see any libgl1-mesa-dri powerpc package in sid, any idea what
> > the problem is ? Or did you give the wrong name ? There is a libgl1-mesa-dbg,
> > and a mesag3, and the obvious xlibmesa-dri ones, but no libgl1-mesa-dri.
>
> Could someone point me to a page explaining the difference between
> xlibmesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-dri please ? I have installed the latter
> because I have vaguely understood I should by reading the list, but I
> don't understand their respective aims.
the later is coming from the mesa tree, while the former is coming from the
snapshot of the mesa tree that was included in xorg 6.8.2 at its release. I
suppose the later is preferable since it will be more uptodate, and the former
may go away once we have the modular Xorg 7.0 based tree.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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