On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Michael Robinson <[email protected] > wrote:
> I'm running CentOS 5.3 which is undoubtedly more stable than Fedora. > I'm updated as much as I believe I can be but Mesa is too ancient to > support Secret Maryo Chronicles and Command and Conquer Red Alert for > example. I want to upgrade Mesa, but finding the home page and > grabbing the source for Mesa-7.4.1 I find that there is a libdrm > dependency and grabbing libdrm-2.4.9 source code I find that there > is a pkgconfig pthread-stubs.pc dependency. Digging deeper on > freedesktop.org I find that X is apparently changing radically. > > Has anyone updated CentOS enough to run Command and Conquer Red > Alert under Wine? > > Yeah I suppose I could drop in another hard drive and try another > Linux distribution, but which one? > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > CentOS is really designed to be a server distro so that's why the stuff is older. They don't upgrade as often because it's not necessary and they follow RHEL releases. I don't know if it'll work but you could try adding the Fedora repo's and see if you can grab the newer mesa stuff you need. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
