Bug#480755: IRC followup
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 00:25 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> I supposed it'd be good to have this registered in the bug log:
>
> 00:09 < jcristau> nyu: can you attach your X log to 480755?
> 00:11 < jcristau> nyu: also output of glxinfo
> 00:14 < nyu> sure, just a min
> 00:16 < nyu> jcristau: ugh, no direct rendering. I expected it'd have been enabled
> 00:16 < nyu> does that matter?
> 00:16 < jcristau> where do you see that?
> 00:17 < jcristau> what matters is whether aiglx is enabled, mostly
> 00:19 < nyu> nope. missing libgl1-mesa-dri seems to be at fault
> 00:20 < nyu> shouldn't it be dragged with a dependency from compiz?
> 00:20 < nyu> (aiglx aborts when i915_dri.s cannot be found)
> 00:21 < nyu> s/.s/.o/
> 00:21 < jcristau> the nvidia driver doesn't need libgl1-mesa-dri
> 00:21 < jcristau> so no
> 00:21 < jcristau> same for fglrx
> 00:21 < nyu> ORed then?
> 00:21 < jcristau> maybe. ask seanius. :)
> 00:22 < nyu> seanius: I hereby ask you!
> 00:22 < nyu> (thanks ;-))
>
> If you're worried about Depends on outside packages being forbidden, we could
> just add Provides: to the ati and nvidia binary blobs so that a dependency
> can be shared.
There is no real dependency - compiz could be used on a remote X
display.
Also, the lack of a 3D driver will prevent 3D acceleration in general,
not just for compiz, so this should be taken care of at a more basic
level, and AFAICT that's already the case - xserver-xorg recommends
libgl1-mesa-dri.
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