Dave Reed wrote: >> From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@redhat.com> >> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Dave Reed wrote: >> Correct. You'll have to compile Mesa 4.x yourself, or wait for >> an official release that contains it. > > > Thanks for responding Mike. I know I can compile Mesa 4.x myself and > use it - I've compiled it "standalone" but then the DRI/3D > accelleration doesn't work. > > Are you saying that Mesa 4.x could provided accelerated 3D support > with XFree 4.2 and my Radeon 7500 card if I took your XFree86 4.2 src > rpm and replaced its Mesa 3.4.2 with Mesa 4.x? From the FAQ entry I >> I currently have no plans of packaging up Mesa 4.x (although I >> would like to). > > Please clarify: you have no plans because it's not stable yet and want > it to be stable before packaging it, or you because you don't have > time, or some other reason. Would the ExternalMesa option in the XFree86.spec allow Mesa-4.0 to work with DRI correctly, or is more needed for this? > Also, you mentioned in any earlier version that RawHide is updated > daily (and only new packages that are really broken are reverted to > earlier versions). Where is the best place to get update XFree86 RPMS > from: > > ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/7.2/XFree86/ > or > from rawide? What about sources to build locally? What is different other than the Release number? Which is more up to date (new patches and such)? -Thomas
