On Thu, 17 May 2001, Frank wrote:
>> As far as the gotchas, Mandrake 8 has all the kernel modules gzipped up.
>> The install script didn't rename the original radeon.o.gz module. There
>> was also a libGL.1.2.030401 left hanging around in the /usr/X11R6/lib
>> directory.
>
>There have been a lot of problem reports from Mandrake 8 users on the FAQ comments.
I made some notes during my installation, I could possibly write something
of a howto if you think it would help.
>
>Could you explain what you mean by the kernel modules are gzipped up?
>Are you saying the modules are zipped in /lib/modules to save space and then get
>unzipped when needed by the kernel???
More or less. this is what my drm modules directory looks like now that I
have installed the 0.7 package...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29688 Apr 15 17:14 gamma.o.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34815 Apr 15 17:14 i810.o.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39383 Apr 15 17:14 mga.o.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39627 Apr 15 17:14 r128.o.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108222 May 16 19:15 radeon.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25798 Apr 15 17:14 tdfx.o.gz
>
>Also, the libGL.1.2.xxxxx hanging around is not a problem since we symlink libGL.so
>and libGL.so.1 to the correct library.
>But maybe we should still try to remove/backup all old libGLs?
>This is also a problem on Redhat were such a libGL sticks around in /usr/lib .. they
>get installed from the Mesa RPMS.
Well, I claim to be no genius... I remember something on my slackware
box though.. Quake3 for instance would run fine, but Unreal Tournament
would revert to software Mesa unless I removed all traces of libGL*
except those provided with whichever drivers I was using. If I remember
right it was this way with both the DRI drivers for my Radeon, and
Nvidia's driver for a GeForce card I have.
>
>- Frank
>î/zx%C/zXy+zmXy+zlX)ߣk^
>
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