xf86-video-intel 2.2.1 release testing

[Ben E. Hard]

Am Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2008 schrieb Ben E. Hard:
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> > > Thanks, that helped. I installed xserver-xorg and dependend packages
> > > from unstable and xf86-video-intel from git. Now i get
> > > ~$ glxinfo | grep renderMesa DRI Intel(R)
> > > Failed to initialize TTM buffer manager.  Falling back to classic.
> > > direct rendering: Yes
> > > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 830M 20061102
> > >
> > > don't know about the TTM stuff, but at least rendering is ok.
> >
> > Thanks for testing. But I was not suggesting to try mesa/drm master tip
> > for this release testing as they are unstable at this point. The TTM
> > failure
>
> Got that now... I thought I would need all that stuff as it is said in
> http://intellinuxgraphics.org/install.html. Probably you could add
> something there telling the people who are not experts (like me) about some
> dependencies: that you can use xf86-video-intel from git with the versions
> of xserver, mesa and drm you told here in your first mail.
>
> > seems as http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13922, probably a
> > cross-component compat issue.
>
> So this could be the result of installing xserver and mesa from git and
> downgrading to the debian unstable versions on a lenny system? I'll try to
> find out what is not compatible here.

You were right about the cross-component compat issue: I had some leftovers 
from mesa git in /usr/local/lib, which I removed. Now I don't have the TTM 
failure anymore.

Greetings,
Ben