On Thu, 17 May 2001, Frank wrote:
>> As far as the gotchas, Mandrake 8 has all the kernel modules gzipped up.
>> The install script didn't rename the original radeon.o.gz module. There
>> was also a libGL.1.2.030401 left hanging around in the /usr/X11R6/lib
>> directory.
>
>There have been a lot of problem reports from Mandrake 8 users
>on the FAQ comments.
>
>Could you explain what you mean by the kernel modules are
>gzipped up? Are you saying the modules are zipped in
>/lib/modules to save space and then get unzipped when needed by
>the kernel???
>
>Also, the libGL.1.2.xxxxx hanging around is not a problem since
>we symlink libGL.so and libGL.so.1 to the correct library. But
>maybe we should still try to remove/backup all old libGLs?
>This is also a problem on Redhat were such a libGL sticks
>around in /usr/lib .. they get installed from the Mesa RPMS.
Unfortunately, until 4.x supports all the hardware, or at least
the hardware that we consider important, we need to ship 3.3.6
servers in addition to 4.x, and that has some really crummy side
effects, like having to ship separate Mesa and other hacks so
that everyone can do 3D. I would like nothing more than to get
rid of XFree86 3.3.6 from the distribution, and also the separate
Mesa package.
While XFree86 4.x is getting closer each release to that goal, it
is still not quite there yet.. The S3 code in particular - which
Ani Joshi (I hope I spelled that correctly) has graciously been
working on is one of the things that will help out greatly.
There are other drivers also to get ported over before we dump
3.3.6 and separate Mesa though. Unfortunately the hardware and
docs are exceedingly rare for a lot of the stuff.
Take care,
TTYL
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