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Bug#639617: libgl1-mesa-glx: libGL should give some indication when DRI2 fails



Hi,

Andrew Deason <adeason@dson.org> (28/08/2011):
> […]
> Arguably the "real" problem here is that DRI2 is disabled.

not really “arguably”. :)

> […] So, after it
> tried DRI2, libGL tried to use r300_dri.so with DRI, which doesn't work
> (which is that 'Calling driver entry point failed' error). I spent a bit
> of time trying to debug this, and it would have been easier if the debug
> messages said a little more about what was happening.
> 
> Attached is a patch (which modifies libGL and the *_dri.so drivers) so
> instead I get these messages:

Thanks for the patch. Can you please mail it upstream? That'd be:
  mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org

> Technically this affects both libgl1-mesa-glx and libgl1-mesa-dri, but
> this is such a little thing, I didn't want to clutter both packages with
> a bug report.

Yes, that's very fine.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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