building Xgl under debian/sid

[Ross Burton]

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 20:27 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > I'm trying to build Xgl under debian/sid. The problem when building
> > > mesa is that glcontextmodes.c includes GL/glxint.h, which is only
> > > part of the package xlibmesa-gl-dev that I can't install because I
> > > have libgl1-mesa-dri installed (I need the R300 radeon dri driver to
> > > have accelerated OpenGL).
> > > Does anyone know how to build Mesa with open source DRI ?
> > > 
> > 
> > afaik the open source driver is missing one important feature for
> > xgl called GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two. If your glxinfo | grep ARB
> > don´t show it you schould make xgl with the ati driver, or it will be
> > to slow to be usable.  Just my experience with a radeon 9600...
> 
> You're right, I don't have that GL extension. I won't bother building
> Xgl then.

I don't have that extension (checked in normal Xorg 7) and Xglx is
usable.  It's not super-fast, but it's perfectly usable (I'm using the
stock Dapper packages).

Ross
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