On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 01:52, Michael Berlan wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:33, Michel D�nzer wrote:
> > On Son, 2003-03-02 at 14:53, Michael Berlan wrote:
> > > I'm having a little trouble getting DRI working with my ATI AIW Radeon
> > > 8500DV and was hoping for some help.  I'm using the xfree 4.3 packages
> > > for debian put together by Daniels from
> > > http://capricorn.woot.net/~daniels/current/sid/i386/
> > > As far as I can tell DRI initializes corretly from the xfree log, but
> > > glxinfo tells me that DRI is not enabled.  I've attached the output from
> > > both.  Any help is appreciated.
> > 
> > First of all, make sure xlibmesa4-dri is installed (it contains the
> > actual DRI drivers). If it still doesn't work, run
> > 
> > LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
> > 
> > and post the output if it doesn't help you.
> 
> Works great now.  Thanks a ton!

You're welcome.

> Wondering why that package isn't installed with the rest in
> x-window-system.

Yep, it might be a good idea for x-window-system-core to depend on
xlibmesa4-dri. Mind making that suggestion to Daniel Stone in case he
doesn't see it here?

xlibmesa4-gl recommends xlibmesa4-dri though, you may want to look into
using an APT frontend like aptitude which can handle recommendations and
suggestions.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

_______________________________________________
XFree86 mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86

Reply via email to