On Monday 19 April 2004 20:08, Michel DÃnzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 02:13, ajax wrote:
> > All drivers except savage emit the "Direct rendering disabled" message as
> > an informational message; savage makes it an error.  Technically it's not
> > an error, since the server can continue, but it should probably be at
> > least a warning.  This would make troubleshooting easier, because users
> > know to look for lines with a (WW) or (EE) on them.
> >
> > Attached patch makes this message a warning across all drivers.
>
> IMHO it should only be a warning if it was intended to be enabled in the
> first place.

I tend to agree.  I don't think there's any list of requested modules 
maintained anywhere.  tdfx does xf86LoaderCheckSymbol("DRIQueryVersion") to 
see if libdri.a loaded though, which is probably good enough; if the check 
fails the message can be degraded to an X_INFO.  Sound reasonable?

> PS: Is anyone opposed to providing this guy (do you have a real name? :)
> with CVS write access?

Indeed I do, sorry about that.

- ajax


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