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List:       dri-users
Subject:    Re: [Dri-users] HELP ME!!!
From:       Jon Pennington <dren () whack ! org>
Date:       2001-04-22 20:36:34
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:47:47AM -0400, Tom von Schwerdtner wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001, Jon Pennington wrote:
> 
> > Read DRIsetup.
> 
> Is there a file I should be reading?  DRIsetup from the downloads page is
> (afaik) a binary....?

Ignore this.
 
> > Untar the tarballs.
> > Run the install.sh script in radeon-*:dripkg.
> > Copy the stuff from radeon-*:dripkg/GL into /usr/lib.
> > Copy the XFree86 binary to /usr/X11R6/bin.
> 
> Isnt the install script supposed to do both of the above?  I know it copies
> the XFree86 bianry because I keep having to 'chown root:root' and 'chmod
> 4711' it whenever I run the script....or is the script totally fouled up?

The script is supposed to do this, but it never has for me.  I just do it manually \
after the script has run, and it works fine.  
> > [*] - This may not work, either.  I seem to recall something being broken in the \
> > binary packages, but I have older local copies for my MGA that are known to work. \
> > YMMV, but this is your best bet.
> 
> as for this, I would say no, some of them dont work....but I've _never_ had
> dri working under Debian (worked great in Mandrake 7.2) so I could just be
> doing everything wrong, but I cant seem to get it working and DRIsetup tells
> me its due to compile errors (shrug). 

This is the only way I /have/ had DRI working.

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