DRI issues

[dep]

begin  Bob Raymond's  quote:

| No response from him, but the status of this has changed a bit now.
| I've got the appropriate driver, etc. (a cvsup'ing did the trick),
| DRI loads, but I get segfaulting when I try anything GLX. Running
| xpdyinfo gives me "XFree86-DRI" so I assume I'm OK there.  I
| shudder to think what will happen when a screensaver loads.

what does it say when you do glxinfo? we're looking for something like 
this up top:

name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2

there has also been a *big* issue that i think is attributable to some 
gl implementations. for instance, some what appear to be utter locks 
of suse 8.1; in my experimentation here, though, it is utter locks 
brought on by xscreensavers and some vid cards and the current xfree 
shipped by suse. otoh, on my matrox g-400 with recent cvs xfree, 
there has been no such problem.

part of the issue is the was the software gl emulation interacts -- 
interferes with, more like it -- the hardware gl iteration. this has 
been a mess for awhile, but it is getting better only very gradually, 
and sure as hell with no help from the vendors.
-- 
dep

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