On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:16:47PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 00:25 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > I supposed it'd be good to have this registered in the bug log: > > > > 00:09 < jcristau> nyu: can you attach your X log to 480755? > > 00:11 < jcristau> nyu: also output of glxinfo > > 00:14 < nyu> sure, just a min > > 00:16 < nyu> jcristau: ugh, no direct rendering. I expected it'd have been > > enabled > > 00:16 < nyu> does that matter? > > 00:16 < jcristau> where do you see that? > > 00:17 < jcristau> what matters is whether aiglx is enabled, mostly > > 00:19 < nyu> nope. missing libgl1-mesa-dri seems to be at fault > > 00:20 < nyu> shouldn't it be dragged with a dependency from compiz? > > 00:20 < nyu> (aiglx aborts when i915_dri.s cannot be found) > > 00:21 < nyu> s/.s/.o/ > > 00:21 < jcristau> the nvidia driver doesn't need libgl1-mesa-dri > > 00:21 < jcristau> so no > > 00:21 < jcristau> same for fglrx > > 00:21 < nyu> ORed then? > > 00:21 < jcristau> maybe. ask seanius. :) > > 00:22 < nyu> seanius: I hereby ask you! > > 00:22 < nyu> (thanks ;-)) > > > > If you're worried about Depends on outside packages being forbidden, we > > could > > just add Provides: to the ati and nvidia binary blobs so that a dependency > > can be shared. > > There is no real dependency - compiz could be used on a remote X > display. > > Also, the lack of a 3D driver will prevent 3D acceleration in general, > not just for compiz, so this should be taken care of at a more basic > level, and AFAICT that's already the case - xserver-xorg recommends > libgl1-mesa-dri.
Recommends are unfortunately ignored in the vast majority of xserver-xorg installs, which are performed by tasksel (see #388290, but I wouldn't pursue fixing that bug untill overuse of Recommends in the archive becomes less common). I'd suggest adding libgl1-mesa-dri to the desktop task, then. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
