On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:45:10 +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 09:11 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 04:13:50PM +0100, erwin wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:31:57 +0200, Timo Aaltonen <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > > (please use the mailing list mentioned on the maintainer field of the >> > > package) >> > > >> > > On 10.02.2012 15:51, erwin wrote: >> > >> >> > >> Hi Timo, >> > >> >> > >> I noticed the following line in the changelog for >> > >> libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental in the xorg edgers ppa: >> > >> >> > >> Drop the dri-alternates driver search path, and don't ship >> > >> gallium version of i915_dri.so for now >> > >> >> > >> Could you tell me why you stopped shipping the gallium version of >> > >> i915_dri.so? I used this to get OpenGL2 support on my netbook (some >> > games >> > >> require it). Is there anything I can do to get it back in? >> > > >> > > Nope, don't remember why I dropped it. Maybe just that the package >> > > had >> > > enough issues to get it built, and it was getting on the way. >> > >> > Any chance of getting it back in? I'd be happy to help with any issues, >> > could you point me in the right direction? >> >> I understood that this was no longer being maintained upstream, thus the >> frequent build issues. > > I'm pretty sure i915g is being actively maintained and developed; IIRC > the ChromeBooks use i915g. It is, as Erwin says, more featureful than > i915. > > i965g is indeed unmaintained and (as far as I'm aware) never did > anything much more than lock up the GPU. > > Chris
The reply by Chris is now approximately 2 weeks old and yesterday there was another update of the packages but still no gallium i915_dri. Since this problem is probably not going to fix itself, I'm asking again: Is there anything I can do to get gallium i915_dri back in the packages? Erwin -- Ubuntu-x mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-x
