[Long] Direct Rendering stopped on G400

Anthony David adavid at adavid.com.au
Fri Dec 13 21:04:51 EST 2002


Steven Hanley <sjh at svana.org> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 05:04:47PM +1100, Anthony David wrote:
> > Direct rendering now doesn't work. He seems to think it was after a Mesa
> > upgrade. He has removed the new Mesa but with no change in behaviour.
> 
> Correct, do not install MEsa, Mesa is the software rendering libraries, you
> need to install the xlibmesa stuff, very different, they are the packages
> that allow the graphics card to do its stuff.
> 
> The xlibmesa and xlibmesa-gl AFAIR

Thanks Steve

I was speaking a tad generically.

Got that

adavid at debaser:~$ dpkg -l xlibmesa3
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  xlibmesa3      4.2.1-4        XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library

adavid at debaser:~$ dpkg -l mesag3   
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn  mesag3         <none>         (no description available)

no sign of xlibmesa3-gl however

adavid at debaser:~$ apt-cache search mesa
...
xlibmesa-dev - XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library development files
xlibmesa3 - XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library
xlibmesa3-dbg - XFree86 version of Mesa 3D graphics library (unstripped)
xlibosmesa-dev - Mesa/XFree86 off-screen rendering library development files
xlibosmesa3 - Mesa/XFree86 off-screen rendering library
xlibosmesa3-dbg - Mesa/XFree86 off-screen rendering library (unstripped)

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