Bug#568091: libgl1-mesa-glx: mesa needs to be built against current libdrm-dev

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Package: libgl1-mesa-glx
Version: 7.6.1-1
Severity: wishlist


This may be "jumping the gun" but after libdrm-radeon1 became availabe
I attempted to get kernel mode setting working with a radeon 9200se card.

I had to compile xf86-ati-radeon from git (version 6.12.99), and then
ran into software rendering being used.

I recompiled the mesa in Debian (7.6.1) against the libdrm 2.4.17 and
now have hardware rendering working again.

There may be very good reasons for having mesa in Debian unstable still
compiled against earlier libdrm, but to make use of kernel mode setting
with acceleration I had a long recompile of mesa (nearly 13 hours on this
machine), and mesa compiled against current libdrm would have avoided this
problem.

Thanks! 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libgl1-mesa-glx depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-5   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdrm2                       2.4.17-1   Userspace interface to kernel DRM 
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxdamage1                   1:1.1.2-1  X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxext6                      2:1.1.1-2  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                    1:4.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxxf86vm1                   1:1.1.0-2  X11 XFree86 video mode extension l

Versions of packages libgl1-mesa-glx recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri               7.6.1-1    A free implementation of the OpenG

libgl1-mesa-glx suggests no packages.

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