xf86-video-intel 2.2.1 release testing

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 14:51 +0100, Ben E. Hard wrote:
> 
> Am Dienstag, 22. Januar 2008 schrieb Jin, Gordon:
> > Jesse is planning to release 2.2.1 soon in this week. So it will be good if
> > you could test xf86-video-intel-2.2-branch at this point and report bugs
> > asap. You could use the latest released xserver(1.4), Mesa(7.0.2 or
> > 7.0.3-rc1), DRM(in the recent kernel).
> 
> I tried to compile xf86-video-intel from git on debian lenny and updated 
> xserver-xorg[-input, dev] first from unstable. I compiled the drm, libdrm, 
> intel module and mesa as descriped on 
> http://intellinuxgraphics.org/install.html.
> 
> Everthing compiled and I got it working, but bug #13722 still exists and, 
> secondly, rendering is not working anymore. I found some probably related 
> message in Xorg.0.log: 
> (EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed 
> (/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727)
> (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering.

mesa Git requires xserver Git for AIGLX to work.

You could use mesa_7_0_branch as suggested above or
leave /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so unchanged from your distro and use the
mesa Git build from another location on the client side though.


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