[ltp] DRI/OpenGL with radeon driver

[D. Sen]

Spend hours saturday trying to get DRI working with the open-source 
driver - without much success. Basically tried to follow the 
instructions on the wiki (http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building). 
Here is a summary of what happened:

	1) Managed to compile xorg from the CVS fine. (required a few tweaks, 
mostly to do with 'freetype' and 'zlib').
	2) Building libdrm (again from CVS) was not so easy. Had to deal with 
incompatibilities in autoconf/automake, etc etc. Finally I got it built 
and installed.
	3) Mesa again complained about drm package not being installed. Managed 
to convince it that drm was installed. Again, built and installed.

	Final result however was that X would start for all of 30 seconds 
before hard-locking up the machine.

	I then went back to an email on the list by David Desrosier on how he 
used code from sourceforge.net instead of the instructions on the wiki. 
This however didnt work for me either.

	So, I would appreciate it very much if someone who has had success in 
building this to put up their source trees (for drm, Mesa, etc) with 
details of what they did to get it working.

Thanks,
DS

David A. Desrosiers wrote:
>>Anyone else?
> 
> 
> 	Works flawlessly here under 2.6.12.x and 2.6.13 series 
> kernels. The only thing missing that was there with non-DRI was the 
> text-mode progress indicator when suspending to disk.
> 
> 	I probably suspend and resume 20+ times per-day as I move 
> around from office to office, or location to location to work.
> 
> 
> David A. Desrosiers
> desrod@gnu-designs.com
> http://gnu-designs.com