From: Jeffrey W. B. <jw...@ac...> - 2000-12-20 15:54:04
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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 |