On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 07:19:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Well, experimenting with my own build suggests that if you include
>
>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
>
>in the binary packages, everything works fine again.
>
>ie. radeon works if you install the following on top of a standard
>XFree86 4.2 distribution:
>
>drm kernel module
>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so
>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/atimisc_drv.o
>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o
>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a
>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
>
>but it doesn't work without the updated libdri.a. This would also
>explain why all the cards seem to be affected.
>

Good detective work! 

>Hopefully this fix is relatively painless for Jose?

Yep. No problem! (I'm quite happy it's not a problem with my system or I
would be lost!) 

The binaries building system is quite flexible in that
matter [of what can be included or not]. The word before was just
including the device dependent stuff [i.e., the bare minimum], but after this episode 
I wonder if
this is such a good idea.

José Fonseca


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