Peter B. Steiger wrote:
I'm going to try installing x.org 6.9.0 (currently running 6.8.2) and I
want the most recent DRM / OpenGL drivers for my ATI Radeon. I see that
the separate libraries for libdrm and Mesa are slightly newer than the
ones that come bundled with the x.org source... so should I
1) merge the newer external sources into the x.org tree over top of the
existing source before building anything
B) build and install plain-vanilla x.org first, then build the newer
Mesa/libdrm sources over top of the installed x.org files
5) Forget the external libraries and stay with the files that were
written to go with this release of x.org
You really shouldn't need to update mesa at all, unless you are after a
specific change. If you intend to go ahead with it, you'll need the
changes in the existing tree (or find a way to convince the glx
extension to rebuild itself against the installed GL libs). But, again
in most cases, you really don't need to do this at all, unless there is
something provided by the new mesa libs specific to your hardware.
Option 5 is best, B is a no go (actually it'll work, but glx will be
linked statically against the old libs so it should be rebuilt), and 1
might (should) work, though I've not tried it. You also forgot option
X. Wait a few days and go for Xorg-7.1. :-) Modular Xorg only looks
like a PITA, it's really not that bad.
HTH
-- DJ Lucas
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