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

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Donnerstag 05 Januar 2006 13:31 schrieb Nate Bargmann:

> > 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.

Hello Nate,

I considered installing  it, but actually I do not like this too much, as 
I would like to be able to compile a KDE application spontaneously ;):

root@deepdance:/sys -> LANG=en_GB apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri/unstable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Selected version 6.3.2-2 (Debian:unstable) for libgl1-mesa-dri
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdrm1 libgl1-mesa-dri
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  kdelibs4-dev kspy libarts1-dev libglu1-xorg-dev libopenexr-dev 
libqt3-mt-dev x-window-system x-window-system-core
  xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-gl xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibosmesa-dev xlibosmesa4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdrm1 libgl1-mesa-dri
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 13 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 10.4MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.


This one looks better however:
root@deepdance:/sys -> LANG=en_GB apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri/unstable 
libgl1-mesa-dri-dev/unstable mesa-common-dev/unstable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Selected version 6.3.2-2 (Debian:unstable) for libgl1-mesa-dri
Selected version 6.3.2-2 (Debian:unstable) for libgl1-mesa-dri-dev
Selected version 6.3.2-2 (Debian:unstable) for mesa-common-dev
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdrm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri-dev mesa-common-dev
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  x-window-system x-window-system-core xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-gl 
xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibosmesa-dev xlibosmesa4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdrm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri-dev mesa-common-dev
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 8380kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?


I think I stick with the manual installation approach unless I know more 
about the background of those packaging decisions ;-) or unless 
xlibmesa-dri contains the savage driver.

If libgl1-mesa-dri is to be used in future as Alex comment suggests the 
x-window-system and x-window-system-core dependencies should be adjusted. 
Maybe this whole affair is worth a bug report. Well I will add this to 
the existing one you mentioned

Regards,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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