Package: libgl1-mesa-glx Version: 6.4.2-1.1 Severity: normal
Well, i recently assisted a user who had some 3D accel problems on upgrade, and did reproduce the problem myself. The result was a pre-upgrade system showing 3D acceleration support, but a post-upgrade solution which did not. The same is probably true on a full new install. The strange thing is that xlibmesa-dri was installled, and looking at the description of that package, it says it is a temporary package, and it depends on libgl1-mesa-dri, which supposedly is the new name. Now, that package was never pulled in and thus didn't enable accelerated 3d direct rendering. A bit of investigation lead to the fact that libgl1-mesa-glx provides libgl1-mesa-dri, which in itself is strange. Furthermore the description of libgl1-mesa-glx states that it supports direct and indirect rendering, and thus the dependency on libgl1-mesa-dri is kind of warranted, since it would seem from that description that libgl1-mesa-dri is not needed for direct rendering. But then in continuous saying that hw acceleration needs the -dri package (err, it can use the -dri package for acceleration), which is not the most clear of wording. So, all in all, i believe that the situation is quite confuse, and will cause our etch users a serious headache on upgrades and possibly new installs. Not sure exactly what the right solution to this is. Friendly, Sven Luther -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
