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Re: Ubuntu plans for Natty release



On Fre, 2010-11-26 at 18:58 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: 
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 08:44:29 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> 
> > I've thought of a simpler possible solution:
> > 
> >       * Fix the Gallium drivers to bail gracefully instead of crashing
> >         with UMS (this will need to happen anyway). 
> >       * Ship the classic and Gallium drivers in separate directories and
> >         set the libGL search path such that the two directories will be
> >         tried one after another.
> > 
> Won't you also need to make the xserver's dri driver loader look for
> both drivers (for aiglx)?

Good catch :) I forgot to mention AIGLX. It might be best to stick to
the classic drivers for that for now, as they're probably more robust
for that, and I don't think the additional functionality offered by the
Gallium drivers can be used via indirect rendering anyway.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer           |                http://www.vmware.com
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer


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