Re: Bug#333973: xserver-xorg: patch to enable DRI support for 9500 and newer cards
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 14:55, Sven Luther wrote:
> 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.
.. and x-window-system-core depends on the former and is uninstallable
when installing the latter.
Anyway, thanks for the info Sven.
Xav
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