Re: X + DRI problem | solved (again)

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 13:26, Bill Jonas wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:43:34AM -0700, Kevin wrote:
> > To get the working, I did the following:
> > http://firstpacket.com/comments.php?id=215_0_1_0_C4
>
> Thanks for documenting what you did.
>
> I could be mistaken, but it sounds like maybe it could also be done by
> upgrading to XFree86 4.4 (although that will get tricky in most
> distributions) or X.Org 6.7 (it's binary-compatible with XF86 4.4 and is
> a fork from the last release candidate before the license change). (On
> Gentoo, the package is xorg-x11. I documented how I migrated in a
> recent email to plug-discuss, if you're interested.) Purely out of
> curiosity, did you try this?

Just wanted to post this update for the archives. I followed Bill's
suggestion and switched from XFree86-4.3.x to X.org's X11R6.7. It was
simple and painless. The best part - it solved my 3D Acceleration
problem without bolting on all the DRI.sf.net code separately!

So, I added "Solution 2" to my article at:
http://firstpacket.com/comments.php?id=215_0_1_0_C4

Thanks Bill!

...Kevin

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