On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 11:42:48AM -0700, Jens Owen wrote: > Alan, > > I've been playing with your scripts and I'm impressed with the level of > functionality you have. I do have a few questions probably based on my > inexperience with your scripts. > O.k.
> First, what are the base requirements before installation? It looks > like XFree86 4.x and Linux Kernel 2.4.x are required and checked for by > the install script. Are the DRI sources required as well? It looks > like my DRM kernel modules sources are symbolic links to source files > that don't get included in the tar ball. > The requirement has always been XFree86 4.x and kernel 2.4.x - when has this not been the case ? (apart from the old 2.2.x kernel days)... They were certainly written with that requirement in mind though. As for the symlinks. It's using tar, so I guess you've run the dripkg.sh that points to an 'lndir'ed tree. You need to build in checked out tree. > Second, how much do we want to upgrade (replace)? It looks like the > scripts upgrade the OpenGL API libraries (libGL & libGLU); internal core > libraries (libglx, libGLcore, libdri & libdrm), DRM kernel modules (all > of them?) and user level drivers (2D and 3d). I can see how replacing > all of these would increase our chance of success--however, what does > this do to compatability with older (or other) drivers. > Yes. It basically replaces everything. During the original writing of the scripts, things were changing much much faster and we needed to. Alan. _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
