Re: [Dri-devel] (no subject)

[Mike S. <ses...@vv...>]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Frank Worsley wrote:

>First off, apologies all around for not putting in a subject line. I kinda
>forgot about that! ;)
>
>>
>> I made some notes during my installation, I could possibly write
>> something of a howto if you think it would help.
>>
>
>Yeah, it would be very nice if you did that.
>

http://www.vvm.com/~sessions/linux/DRI.txt

>>
>> More or less. this is what my drm modules directory looks like now that I
>> have installed the 0.7 package...
>>
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        29688 Apr 15 17:14 gamma.o.gz
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        34815 Apr 15 17:14 i810.o.gz
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        39383 Apr 15 17:14 mga.o.gz
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        39627 Apr 15 17:14 r128.o.gz
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       108222 May 16 19:15 radeon.o
>> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        25798 Apr 15 17:14 tdfx.o.gz
>>
>>
>
>Wacko ... I've never seen anything like that. Then again, I've never used
>Mandrake. Since a lot of people seem to run Mandrake (especially 8) it
>would probably be worthwhile to add a check for something like this.
>

As long as the .gz module is there, it won't work... Someone new to Linux
is not going to know where to look or what to look for... Just that it
doesn't work.

>>
>> Well, I claim to be no genius... I remember something on my slackware
>> box though.. Quake3 for instance would run fine, but Unreal Tournament
>> would revert to software Mesa unless I removed all traces of libGL*
>> except those provided with whichever drivers I was using. If I remember
>> right it was this way with both the DRI drivers for my Radeon, and
>> Nvidia's driver for a GeForce card I have.
>
>I dunno. If we relink libGL to the correct one in /usr/X11R6/lib it
>shouldn't really be a problem.

Like I said, I remember something, but I could be way off base... The more
I think about it, there may have been some rouge links somewhere and it
may have only affected the Nvidia drivers on my Slackware box which is not
an issue here :) It doesn't seem to hurt anything with it gone at any
rate.