I'm sure they get kernel updates but being that mesa and what Michael is referencing is part of X they probably won't get as much scrutiny or updates.
On 4/28/09, Larry Brigman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Michael Robinson > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> CentOS is really designed to be a server distro so that's why the stuff >>> is >>> older. They don't upgrade as often because it's not necessary and they >>> follow RHEL releases. I don't know if it'll work but you could try adding >>> the Fedora repo's and see if you can grab the newer mesa stuff you need. >>> >>> Drew- >> >> I know that CentOS is designed to be a server distro, but I figure since >> I tend not to update very often that it will be better to use CentOS >> than Fedora. Sadly, the graphics aren't catching up and who knows when >> the next version of CentOS will be released. I have the following >> sources which I compiled to install under /opt2 as the prefix. How do >> I use them? Do I have to install over the top of the older Mesa? > > CentOS does get hardware updates. The latest 5.3 update support the I7 > processors and associated motherboards. > >> >> [mich...@eagle new_mesa]$ ls >> dri2proto-1.99.3.tar libpthread-stubs-0.1.tar schedtool-1.3.0.tar >> libdrm-2.4.9.tar MesaLib-7.4.1.tar >> >> [mich...@eagle opt2]$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf >> include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf >> /usr/lib >> /opt2/lib >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
