On Die, 2002-12-31 at 10:31, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Is SiS DRI even supposed to work in 4.2.x? I know that it most > > definitely won't work in 4.3.0 because it hasn't been maintained in a > > while. > > It is, I assume.
Assumptions tend to be flawed. :) Have there been success reports with the 4.2.x sis_dri.so? If so, you should look at diffs between upstream and the Debian packages in lib/GL and extras/Mesa. > Otherwise how should one explain why just exchanging > sis_dri.so makes it work? The logical consequence can only be that there > were no changes in the DR infrastructure. No, that file contains all the client side DRI code. > There were no significant changes in the code either, as I saw in my > comparison. (Mesa is of the same version, too.) I guess it's still possible that the interface between the common client side DRI code and the drivers was changed in a way that renders the SiS driver non-working. > I assume as regards 4.3, you mean the inclusion of Mesa4, right? Well, > no one of the DRI folks seems to care about the SiS driver, so this is > hopeless anyway. It's not the job of the DRI folks to maintain a driver for hardware they don't have. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
