On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Dave Reed wrote: >XFree 4.2 still has Mesa 3.4.2. Does anyone know when XFree will start >using Mesa 4.x? I understand the DRI structure in Mesa 4.x is quite >different so that's probably the reason 3.4.2 is still being used. The reason is because Mesa 4.0 is unstable. When it becomes stable, then XFree86 will merge it into cvs. I suspect XFree86 4.3.0 will come with Mesa 4.x. >The reason I'm curious is that 3.4.2 has some bugs in its triangle >strip rendering that show up in the code I use all the time. I >reported it and Brian Paul saw that it got fixed (I think Keith >actually fixed it) in Mesa 4.0.1 (I think that's the first version >where it's fixed), but it wasn't easy to backport the fix to Mesa >3.4.2 since the code is so different. Correct. You'll have to compile Mesa 4.x yourself, or wait for an official release that contains it. I currently have no plans of packaging up Mesa 4.x (although I would like to). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: xfree86-list@redhat.com General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
