[ltp] DRI/OpenGL with radeon driver

[Alex Deucher]

On 9/1/05, David A. Desrosiers <desrod@gnu-designs.com> wrote:
>=20
> > The r300 code has been integrated into mesa/drm/xorg cvs.  the stuff
> > at r300.sf.net is deprecated.  See the standard guide for building:
>=20
>         Unfortunately, anything after that merge, is broken. The only
> build I have been able to successfully run for more than 15 seconds in
> X, is the 7/20 version of those separate trees (see my previous posts
> on this for more detail).
>=20
>         You *WANT* the r300 tree from r300.sf.net, specifically the
> drm subdirectory inside of it, to successfully build the kernel
> modules to get proper DRI on a Thinkpad with the Radeon chip.
>=20
> > http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building
>=20
>         These instructions are pretty out-of-date now, and I've
> promised to make the necessary corrections, but I haven't found enough
> time in my schedule to do it yet. There's about 4-5 steps that are
> completely different now, after the changes to the trees (post-patch).
>=20

The instructions look pretty up to date to me.  Perhaps they have been
updated since you last looked.  The only real change is that you need
libdrm installed before you build mesa and that part has been updated.

>=20
> David A. Desrosiers
> desrod@gnu-designs.com
> http://gnu-designs.com