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Date:      Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:15:19 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
To:        "David W.Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
Cc:        ports@freeBSd.org
Subject:   Re: linux_base
Message-ID:  <20010430101519.B34109@gauss.cup.hp.com>
In-Reply-To: <01042821371805.04097@dwcjr.inethouston.net>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:37:18PM -0500
References:  <01042821371805.04097@dwcjr.inethouston.net>

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On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:37:18PM -0500, David W.Chapman Jr. wrote:
> I'm in the process of upgrading linux_base to redhat 7.1, I am almost done 
> with the i386 version, but noticed a few things.  It appears that redhat 7.x 
> doesn't seem ot have alpha versions of the rpms, atleast not on any mirrors I 
> could connect to, so what should be done about that?

Two possibilities:

o  pick another mirror,
o  don't upgrade to 7.1 ;-)

> Also as for XFree86, I 
> used the Xfree86-4 rpm, but when I use the linux_mesa3 in the ports system or 
> the one that goes with redhat 7.1 it only draws the structures(not sure of 
> the technical term) without textures, basically it looks like an unrendered 
> autocad drawing.  Any input would help me greatly.

No ideas so far. I have to dig into this myself. See if RH has patches
released that address this. If it does work with XFree86-3.x, it's
probably best to stick with that for a moment and get the linux_mesa3
maintainer involved.

> Currently unreal 
> tournament runs a lot faster in software render than opengl, and I was 
> hopeing by upgrading linux_base this might fix my problem.

It's probably not that simply. The FreeBSD linux module very likely needs
a new round of upgrading first.

HTH,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
  mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org
  tel:  (408) 447-4222

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