On Fre, 2010-11-26 at 19:32 +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 08:44 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Fre, 2010-11-12 at 12:32 +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers > > wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 13:06 +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > On Don, 2010-11-11 at 12:26 +1100, Christopher James Halse Rogers > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Can you see an easy solution which allows changes during X's runtime > > > > > and > > > > > will handle UMS transparently? > > > > > > > > One possibility would be an r[36]00_dri.so wrapper which can pass > > > > through to the classic or Gallium drivers based on KMS vs. UMS and > > > > configuration via environment variables and/or configuration files. This > > > > might be appropriate for upstream as well. > > > > > > > That sounds an awful lot like work :). > > > > I've thought of a simpler possible solution: > > > > * Fix the Gallium drivers to bail gracefully instead of crashing > > with UMS (this will need to happen anyway). > > * Ship the classic and Gallium drivers in separate directories and > > set the libGL search path such that the two directories will be > > tried one after another. > > > > r300g would be in the first directory searched. With UMS, it would fail > > to initialize, and libGL would pick up r300 from the second directory. > > > > This solution would also allow overriding the default driver with > > $LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH. > > > > I really hope you don't have to stick with your ugly X driver patch. :} > > That sounds like a good plan. Do you know off the top of your head how > much of this is already ready?
Apart from the bug fix, no code changes should be necessary, just invoking configure --with-dri-searchpath /path/to/first/directory:/path/to/second/directoy. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1290762517.1124.20.ca...@thor.local
