On 10/21/2013 03:12 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-10-21 08:21 +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> On 10/20/2013 05:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> >>> after upgrading to the Mesa >>> version in experimental (9.2.1-1). I figured out that after upgrading >>> to 9.2.1-1, Mesa could no longer load the nouveau_dri.so module >>> which I could resolve by downgrading libgl1-mesa-dri to 9.1.7-1 >>> again (I didn't have to downgrade the rest of Mesa). >> >> What would be the best way to go about testing and reporting whether 3D >> hardware acceleration works or does not work in this case? > > Install libgl1-mesa-dri from experimental. If you then get the error > message "libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau" when running > OpenGL programs, please read bug #724576 (which I cannot reproduce, > BTW).
alas, the machine i was testing this on (the Dell Dimension 8300) has
just decided to give up the ghost. i think the power supply failed (all
i get is a blinking orange power button). so i won't be able to report
more on this particular issue.
i suspect it can be closed unless someone else is following it.
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