[cooker-amd64] Re: Testing 32-bit libGL thunks

[Duncan]

Gwenole Beauchesne posted
<Pine.LNX.4.50.0402271805140.22513-100000@thalys.mandrakesoft.com>,
excerpted below,  on Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:09:33 +0100:

> Hi,
> 
> People with 3D accelerated cards through xf86 drivers (ATI), please try
> the following kernel + XFree86 for testing 32-bit libGL acceleration.
> <http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gbeauchesne/x86_64/10.0/> Files:
> kernel-2.6.3, XFree86-4.3-28.2mdk
> 
> You will also have to copy /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/*.so from a 32-bit
> XFree86-server package.
> 
> I have just tested it with an ATI Radeon 9000 + tuxracer, that's nice.

Cool!  2.6 finally!  =:^)

Unfortunately I run Xinerama and DRI is disabled anyway, even still with
2.6, so testing that isn't something I can really do.  (I'm not sure I
have anything to test 32-bit accel anyway, altho I could always run 32-bit
glxgears or something.)

I can test general stability however.  

I'm running self-compiled direct kernel.org 2.6.3 here now, with the
required IDE and reiserfs drivers compiled in, avoiding the complexity of
an initrd.  (I've also run earlier Mdk 2.6 kernels compiled from sources
from the srpms, when they wouldn't build as-is for AMD64, again, without
initrd, or supermount.)  

Is the srpm and/or kernel-sources RPM available for that 2.6, so I can do
the same?  Regardless, I'll test the binary RPM for install and initial
stability and compatibility, but probably won't do a longer term
operational stability test without sources I can recompile for my own
system and setup.

I still wish accel worked with xinerama (or somehow, as NVidia's closed
drivers did, combining screens w/o xinerama, but  of course in a
libre-ware licensed solution).

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