Re: [Dri-users] Konsole with blinking Letters

[Nathan H. <na...@ma...>]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:34:00AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:36:07PM +0100, Peter Kirk wrote:
> 
> > OK, can I just grab the newst Kernel (2.4.2), and build the Voodoo3 DRM 
> > Module with it, or do I realy have to use CVS ?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> Two reasons:
> 
> 1) 2.4.2 doesn't (AFAIK) have the latest DRM module in it.

The DRI CVS DRM (ack) is new, but it has no new functionality and
fixes no new bugs. It's just a lot neater because of Gareth's new
templated DRM code.

> 2) Even if it did, the much more important components are the new
> mesa, and the new DRI drivers for the Xserver. I gather that the
> kernel-side of the 3dfx driver is very simple, and more or less stable 
> now.  It's the Xserver-side, the actual bit which implements openGL
> commands in 3dfx, which is continually improving.

Yup. Upgrading the kernel is kind of irrelevant (I'm still on 2.4
pre12 I think). The most important stuff is in DRI CVS. Upgrading
the kernel but not upgrading XFree/libGL/tdfx_drv is useless.

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