[forum] Re: "Drivers? We don't need no stinking..."

[Michel Dänzer]

On Don, 2003-03-27 at 14:10, James Arthur wrote: 
> On Thursday 27 March 2003 10:07, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > You are aware that DRI release (weekly or so) trunk snapshots ? And that
> > Michel even has dri trunk debian packages ?
> 
> Yes, I find that the packages tend to break things, and I don't have the time 
> to work out why or how I can fix it.

If those problems are specific to my packages, I could try to fix them
if I knew about them...


> (Incidentally, the problem is that I can't get 3D and 2D acceleration on the 
> Radeon 7500 at the same time. Enabling DRI disables 2D acceleration;

That's not true as is, the current radeon drivers provide exactly the
same 2D acceleration primitives with or without DRI enabled, performance
should be better with DRI enabled. Please be more specific.


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