Re: [Dri-users] various DRI/G400 issues.

[Jeffrey W. B. <jw...@ac...>]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Jeff Epler wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:15:41AM -0800, Forge OfBorg wrote:
> > OK, It begs to be asked... Why are so many people trying to use DRI
> > on 2.2.X kernels? The DRI guide specifically states 2.3.51 or up,
> > and DRI as a whole is synced to the latest 2.4.0-testX regularly.
> 
> Kernel 2.2.18 includes a backport of GART and the DRM modules.
> 
> Are these not working?  I was planning on using 2.2.18 in a few days when
> my voodoo4 card shows up, along with a CVS copy of the xfree86 or dri
> xc trees.
> 
> By the way, does the dri tree have the XRender extension merged?  I'm also
> interested in seeing this little piece of work.  Alternately, how does
> the XFree86 4.0.2 tree compare to the head or any of the tdfx- branches
> at dri?

I'm curious too.  It seems that the DRI tree does not have the source to
xterm, which is one of the programs modified to use Xft/XRender.  So I
think I am going to have to build the 4.0.2 tree from XFree86, not
DRI.  Can anyone compare the DRI support in the main XFree86 tree to the
DRI tree?

-jwb