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Date:      Sun, 25 Jun 2006 02:50:13 -0700
From:      Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org, Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject:   Re: gears vs. glxgears; i915 for Linux binaries?
Message-ID:  <1151229013.4651.0.camel@vonnegut>
In-Reply-To: <15386511@srv.sem.ipt.ru>
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On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 23:18 +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:42:53 -0700 Eric Anholt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 22:07 +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:28:39 -0700 Eric Anholt wrote:
> > >=20
> > > > You're getting software rendering with linux_dri.  LIBGL_DEBUG=3Dve=
rbose
> > > > is the way to debug DRI issues, but I can shortcut here and yes, th=
e
> > > > absence of i915_dri.so is the problem.  We need to get linux_dri up=
dated
> > > > to a set of recent Mesa binaries.  I wonder what our current
> > >=20
> > > There are some efforts. :-) But no "when" so far.
> > >=20
> > > > linux_base's package of dri modules looks like?
> > >=20
> > > Linux_base doesn't have any X-related stuff. Nore does current linux
> > > X-port (linux-xorg-libs). We do have only graphics/linux_dri based on
> > > XFree86-4.4.0.
>=20
> > OK, I checked what FC4 has, and their big xorg RPM is 6.8.2 and contain=
s
> > DRI drivers.  However, I don't think we want to use FC4's, not just
> > because of the size of the RPM, but also because the drivers are likely
> > to be too stale.  The DRI driver <-> DDX interface breaks backwards
> > compat much more often than the DRI <-> DRM interface (which in theory
> > never breaks).  So, we really want some fresh Mesa 6.4.2+ DRI drivers,
> > which we can't get from FC4.
>=20
> > So, that means someone needs to get a linux box with suitable glibc
> > again and roll their own like I used to, probably.  Or maybe steal
> > binaries from some other distro.  Suggestions?
>=20
> The only one candidate I've found so far is Mesa-6.4.2-19.i586.rpm
> from OpenSuSE:
> ftp://ftp.chg.ru/.1/Linux/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/suse/=
i586/Mesa-6.4.2-19.i586.rpm
>=20
> I'll try to test it soon. Anybody willing may beat me at testing. ;-)

I'm busy rerolling linux_dri and linux_dri-devel from Mesa 6.5 and Mesa
CVS compiled on a debian box.  We'll see how it turns out.

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Eric Anholt                             anholt@FreeBSD.org
eric@anholt.net                         eric.anholt@intel.com

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