Hello Branden, Hello all,
> Here is a list of issues that are delaying official Debian XFree86 4.x > packages: > * The Mesa problem (specifically, the lack of libGLU.so) really has to be > sorted out upstream if Debian is going to have a sensible handling of > Mesa in our distribution. Alternatively, I can stop shipping the Mesa > stuff altogether in the XFree86 packages until support is ready, but > this will pretty much leave DRI out of the picture. I'd appreciate > feedback on doing this. The XFree86 versions of the Mesa and OSMesa > libraries can be added into woody at a later date without causing any > real disruption. I'd appreciate feedback on the possibility of > releasing 4.0.1-1 (or 4.0.2-1, or whatever) without the XFree86 version > of Mesa. What little feedback I've had so far indicates that people > would rather wait for upstream to resolve this, so that we ship XFree86 > with its own version of libGLU. Please don't let DRI out of the picture. I´m waiting for XFree 4.0.x in Debian-Woody because of the DRI support for my brand new Voodoo 4 Card. I have installed phase2v12 debs and kernel 2.2.18pre11 and got working DRI rendering after some fiddeling (libs manually installed) with glide3 and libGLU.so . This installion is on a 540MB MO Disk on top of a fresh potato install. (Leaved my Woody box untouched). My suggestion so far: Besides the manual installation of some libs phase2v12 installs and work pretty good. My guess: Many Debian User want powerfull 3D support in the next XFree86 debs and therefore wants DRI support. If DRI is not supported most users can stick with XFree 3.3.6. Greetings R. Stallknecht