[ltp] Re: Fwd: Working 3D acceleration on IBM ThinkPad T23 ;-)

[Nate Bargmann]

* Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> [2006 Jan 05 05:41 -0600]:
> Am Dienstag 03 Januar 2006 05:24 schrieb Nate Bargmann:
> 
> > > The xlibmesa-dri package in Sid provides the necessary radeon_dri.so
> > > file and places it in the right place.  It supports several other
> > > cards, but not the savage (yet), unfortunately.
> >
> > Let me add that as of today, Jan 2, 2006, that installing the
> > libgl1-mesa-dri package will remove the xlibmesa-gl package, but won't
> > break Xorg like a couple of days ago.  The savage_dri.so file is
> > provided by libgl1-mesa-dri and performance is unchanged from the
> > manual installation method on my T23.
> >
> > Painless 3D on the T23!
> 
> Hello,
> 
> does anyone know the reason for those different DRI driver packages and 
> the reason, why savage is not included in xlibmesa-dri? 

There is an existing Debian bug report on just this issue:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=338047

The last comment seems to state authoratively, "libgl1-mesa-dri comes
from the mesa source package, not xorg-x11."

I'm not willing to download the entirety of Xorg 6.9 just to verfiy
this claim.  At least a package exists and one does not have to resort
to manually locating and installing a file not compiled with the rest
of the system.

- Nate >>

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