Bug#522054: Downgrading libdrm fixes it

[Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 16:33 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 14:50 +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> > I downgraded libdrm2 and libdrm-intel1 to version 2.4.4+git+20090205
> > +8b88036-1 and Blender and my own OpenGL program now work again!
> > 
> > This also caused libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx to be downgraded to
> > version 7.0.3-7.
> 
> What are the permissions on /dev/dri/card*?  libdrm used to mknod and
> chmod 0666, but now relies on udev for this, which might prevent users
> not in the video group from using DRI.

Would the absence of this device cause the whole system to lock up
though?

I can install the newer packages and reboot and check if you think it
would help. :)

> 
> Cheers,
> Julien
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Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>