Ohh, is it realy that hard of a feature to add?? foo:bar
Old systems try to open "<path>/foo:bar_dri.so" and maby thay will fail or there will be a symlink there. A simpl parser could be added, making a new system pars for the ':' and try each one. --- Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Deucher wrote: > > > Sorry for the top reply, but I couldn't get the formatting right. > > Anyway, perhaps we could use the 3d driver name to differenciate > > between the drivers: via_dri.so - closed source; unichrome_dri.so - > > open source. we could then have the DDX probe for one first then the > > other or we could add an option to choose which. That way the DDX > > would stay in sync as it gets updated since there'd only be one. > > I'm not sure how that would work. The client-side libGL asks the > X-server, "What's the name of the client-side 3D driver?" The X-server > either responds that there is none or it sends back "foo". The > client-side libGL then converts "foo" to "<path>/foo_dri.so". If that > driver fails to initialize, it falls back to indirect-rendering. There > isn't anyway for the X-server to say, "Try 'foo', and if that fails try > 'bar'." > > I think the easier answer is to have people make a symbolic link from > via_dri.so to unichrome_dri.so. :) That's what I did (in the opposite > direction) to get the 3D driver in Mesa to work with the 2D driver in > Xorg. I don't know how people feel about that, though. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. > From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the > one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and > evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
