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

[Alex Deucher]

On 1/5/06, Eric Van Buggenhaut <eric@sindominio.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:12:23AM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > On 1/5/06, Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> > > 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 wo=
n'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 a=
nd
> > > the reason, why savage is not included in xlibmesa-dri?
> > >
> >
> > Until xorg 6.9/7.0 the savage driver was not dri enabled.  Also prior
> > to xorg 7.0, mesa was included as port of the xorg ball of packages.
> > with the new modular Xorg, mesa is supplied directly by the upstream
> > source.  The change in packages must be your distro's way of handing
> > that I suspect.
>
> Thanks for the details. Do you know what I have to do after installing
> libgl1-mesa-dri to have X using the r300_dri.so module ?
>

I dunno.  I haven't used distro X packages in years.  You can build
from source...

Alex

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