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Date:      Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:25:56 +0100
From:      Igor Pokrovsky <igor.pokrovsky@cnrm.meteo.fr>
To:        Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: XFree86 4.3.0 update
Message-ID:  <3E704EA4.6F1223A1@cnrm.meteo.fr>
References:  <1047429424.8471.40.camel@leguin> <3E6F32DA.9C7F1BD@cnrm.meteo.fr>  <20030312144443.Y12585@mkd.mkd.ath.cx> <1047514016.614.106.camel@leguin>

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Eric Anholt wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 05:46, mkd@mnm.uib.es wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Igor Pokrovsky wrote:
> >
> > > I've just installed committed version XFree86 and got a lot of problems:
> > > (I deleted previous version of XFree and installed new one)
> > >
> > > 1. DRI is not available, Mesa is falling back to indirect rendering.
> > > (I have Radeon M7, kernel module is loaded, it was working with 4.2.0)
> >
> >       I have the same problem, i got the exact error:
> >
> >               $ glxinfo
> >               libGL error: InitDriver failed
> >
> >       Must the drm-kmod be updated to be used with the new 4.3 XFree?
> >       or just a new version of Mesa?
> 
> For problems with the DRI, please use my troubleshooting page for the
> dri:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/troubleshooting.html
> 
> I'm trying to make it as complete as possible.  With that log I don't
> know really what's going on.
> 
> No drm-kmod update should be necessary, unless you have a card supported
> in 4.3.0 that wasn't in 4.2.0.  Again, Mesa is included with XFree86,
> and the port we have just supplies libglut.

In fact I was getting libGL error messages until I updated drm kmod
from 1.1.1 to 1.8.1. But 1.1.1 worked fine in 4.2.0 and not working
in 4.3.0

So I suggest everybody to update drm kmod for using with 4.3.0.

-- 
Igor


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