Matthew Burgess wrote:
> On Sunday 18 February 2007 04:16, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>> I was using my laptop this last week when I was away from home and
>>> noticed that DRI was not working.  Usually, I just use the proprietary
>>> Nvidia driver, but I am using the nv driver on a stable BLFS 6.2 system
>>> here.
>>>
>>> In Xorg.0.log I get:
>>>
>>> (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
>> Never mind.  I see now that the open source driver does not support dri.
> 
> I think the open source Nouveau driver does though 
> (http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/).  IIRC, the statement on their Wiki 
> of "Currently, nothing works. If you're not a developer, you're not 
> interested in this at all. There used to be a feature matrix of what we need 
> to do." is a little exaggerated.  I'm sure I've heard of people using the 
> driver successfully, but I've not personally tried it yet.

I saw that too.  I really don't want to mess around with something that
sounds that alpha.  If I really want dri, I can always install the
proprietary driver.  At one time (when I was teaching) I really needed
it for Twinview so I could project the screen and look at the one on the
laptop at the same time.

  -- Bruce
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