On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:10, Andy Ross wrote: > > First off, getting DRI to coexist with an existing X11 distribution is > a chore. As everybody knows (translation: I only wasted 20 minutes on > this one) clients have to have an LD_LIBRARY_PATH containing the right > libGL.so, but even then you only get indirect rendering because the > client-side DRI driver isn't found. Is it possible (via an > environment variable or compile time switch) to get the client-side > libGL to look somethere *other* that /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri for > drivers? I have to move the directory out of the way and make a > symlink every time I change X servers.
If you change the ProjectRoot variable for the build, libGL will also look there for the drivers by default. > Likewise, I had to figure out for myself where the kernel modules were > (something like nine directories deep!), and that they didn't build > themselves. We could make them build by default in the DRI tree? > Both drivers get terribly confused if the other one touches the card > first. I typically have to do a hard reset before changing X servers > or else the machine chokes (sometimes it's a hard lockup, other times > the X server just enters an infinite loop and I can reboot the machine > over the network). Since you guys clearly can't be responsible for > what someone else does to the hardware, I haven't investigated this > very much. I suspect this is due to the memory controller registers being programmed differently. We should probably consider switching to the scheme recommended by ATI, which is used by GATOS. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
