On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 16:13, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > I finally updated to 4.2.1 (-4) from 4.1.0.1 and found that DRI on the > SiS chipsets does not work anymore. > > My box is running kernel 2.4.19 (with xfs patch, otherwise vanilla) and > the latest XFree 4.2.1-4 packages from unstable. > > The (XFree) SiS driver enables DRI correctly, but glxgears says "Direct > Rendering: No". Consequently, indirect rendering is used. > > Replacing the 4.2.1-4 xlibsmesa3 package with the one from stable > (4.1.0-16) makes DRI work again. To be more exact, replacing 4.2.1's > sis_dri.so with the 4.1 version is enough. > > A comparison of the source between the 4.1 and 4.2 version (as regards > sis_dri.so) shows as good as no changes, except in the (I)Makefile(s). > > 1) Has anyone managed to make DRI on the SiS chipsets work with Debian's > 4.2 packages?
Is SiS DRI even supposed to work in 4.2.x? I know that it most definitely won't work in 4.3.0 because it hasn't been maintained in a while. > 2) Any clue on why this happens? Does running glxinfo with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose give a hint? Otherwise, you may want to post to dri-devel. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
