Subject: Re: MesaLib-dri 6.5.3+patches package in pkgsrc-wip
To: Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
From: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com>
List: tech-x11
Date: 05/25/2007 09:54:19
On 25/05/07, Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using this package now with modular-xorg-server-mesa653 (redux).

Is this the package in wip? I just cvs updated it and...

> If anyone's
> having issues with DRI on NetBSD, please try these packages and let me know how
> it goes.  It's working out exceedingly well for me.  I get ~850fps at
> 1024x768@24bit full-screen with glxgears at 25% CPU (Radeon
> X800/R423).  In the default window, I get ~4000fps (yes, I know
> glxgears is not a benchmark, but I don't know of anything else, heh).
> Xfce's compositing feature works very well.
>
> If you're using x86, I recommend using the assembly dispatch routines,
> which--along with the drivers--are now selectable via the options
> framework.

... don't see any options about these ('make show-options' shows only
'dri', which is ofcourse enabled).

>  Also, one may set the path where the drivers are installed
> (relative to ${PREFIX}) via the DRI_MODULE_PATH variable.  See the
> Makefile for details.

There is no DRI_MODULE_PATH variable in the Makefile here.

>
> Regards,
>
> --Blair
>
Cheers,

Chavdar Ivanov

(BTW, I also have the keyboard issue with Xorg7.3 as described by the
next post - Xorg vt05' returns - incorrect option - for vt05; if I
replace this with e.g. ttyE4, it works, but the keyboard output
*occasionaly* goes to a console tty).