Bug#446315: xserver-xorg-video-ati: crashes in R and Blender, and incomlete drawing of glut (opengl) wire objects

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Alex Sheppard wrote:
> But when i try to compile ('make linux-dri-x86') i get a load of errors.
> I guess i have some headers missing but i can't figure out what packages
> i need to install to provide them. Error messages attached. Is there any
> systematic lookup to find what package supplies what headers?
> 
> Feel free to point me to a helpful forum or something if you don't have
> time to help in person.

You should be able to get all required header packages with:
  apt-get build-dep mesa


Also, if you feel like building mesa is too long, you can restrict the
list of drivers to build with something like:
  make linux-dri-x86 DRI_DIRS=r300

"LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo" will tell you which driver you need
(r300_dri.so if you have a r300).


Also, there is no real need to install the newly built lib. You can
keep them in the build tree and do:
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<foo>
  export LIBGL_DRIVERS_DIR=<bar>
with <foo> the path to the directory containing the new libGL.so, and
<bar> the path to the newly built DRI driver (r300_dri.so or so).

As earlier, use "export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose" to get some debugging
output from glxinfo and check that it is using the correct lib and
driver.


If you're lost/bored by all this, you might want to wait a couple
days/weeks until we upload mesa 7.0.2 into Debian :)

Brice