--- Vladimir Dergachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Keith - do these drivers work with XFree86 4.4.0, or do they require
> something newer ?
>
> Also, if one is starting on a new driver do you recommend using 4.4.0
> codebase or something different ? (the simpler the better..)
I'd say stick with DRI (for DDX) amd mesa (for 3D) cvs for the time
being (until this is sorted out).
Alex
>
> thanks !
>
> Vladimir Dergachev
>
>
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Keith Whitwell wrote:
>
> > I've committed a patch to allow people to build DRI drivers
> directly in Mesa
> > CVS. There are still a couple of gotchas, so I'm going to give
> some build
> > instructions here:
> >
> > 1) Update your mesa CVS...
> >
> > 2) Ensure you have a checkout of DRM cvs somewhere.
> > 3) Edit <MesaCVS>/config/linux-dri to set DRM_SOURCE_PATH to point
> to the DRM
> > cvs tree.
> >
> > 4) In <MesaCVS>, type: make linux-dri
> > -- This should (hopefully) build the *_dri.so files and place them
> in
> > <MesaCVS>/lib
> >
> > To use the drivers:
> >
> > 1) export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=<MesaCVS>/lib
> >
> > and then go off and run some demos to check.
> >
> > I've tested a few things such as quake, tuxracer and the Mesa
> demos, and all
> > seems well. Additionally, I've verified that DRI cvs continues to
> build.
> >
> > Hopefully, we can start a new 'stable' Mesa branch shortly, import
> that into
> > DRI CVS so that we can stop worrying about breaking the DRI build
> with every
> > Mesa change. Then, driver development can continue in the Mesa
> tree, the DRI
> > tree will host DDX and integration development and receive periodic
> snapshots
> > into xc/extras/Mesa, as it used to.
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
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