Savage DRI broken in modular X

Joachim Frieben jfrieben at freesurf.fr
Sat Nov 19 13:06:07 UTC 2005


A manual symlink "/usr/lib/dri" -> "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri"
actually saved my day ;o)
"DRI" is working again. Now, one can have a relaxed look at the
bug itself. Btw, the monolithic X.org RC2 package contains a
"Mesa" version which is more recent, tagged as version "6.4.1".
This update should be cheap to incorporate into "rawhide".
Finally, one might also consider a sort of "compat-xorg-x11"
package to accomodate the needs of older packages, which
might only exist in binary form, e.g. "Mathematica".
This approach has been adopted in comparable cases, as a look
at the "rawhide" tree confirms.

PS: "X/OpenGL Maintainence List (xgl-maint at redhat.com)"
                   ^^^^

     Ouch! Could somebody have a look at this? I am not a native
     speaker, but this appears to be quite exotic. This usually
     writes "Maintenance", doesn't it?





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