Bug#480755: IRC followup

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:16:47PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 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.

Recommends are unfortunately ignored in the vast majority of xserver-xorg
installs, which are performed by tasksel (see #388290, but I wouldn't pursue
fixing that bug untill overuse of Recommends in the archive becomes less
common).

I'd suggest adding libgl1-mesa-dri to the desktop task, then.

-- 
Robert Millan

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