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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn posted on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 23:30:36 +0100 as |
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> media-libs/mesa-7.9 has been sitting in the X11 overlay for some time |
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> and the X11 team are planning to move it to portage soon. |
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> The new release brings a number of improvements, including much better |
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> Gallium3D support. One feature that we would like to add to Mesa in |
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> Gentoo is the ability to switch between "classic" and "gallium" drivers |
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> via an eselect module. |
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I've been running the x11 overlay for some time, and had been wondering |
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how I was supposed to switch between gallium and classic for Radeon. I'd |
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noticed eselect-mesa being merged, but hadn't made the connection. |
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So thanks for the hint! Now I can try gallium on the r600 =:^) (and |
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actually see that I had classic selected, something I thought was the |
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case, but had no idea how to check, before). I figured it should be |
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possible, but hadn't really looked into how, too deeply. |
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FWIW, if there was anything about how that's supposed to work in the |
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post-install messages or the like, I must have missed it, and I'm |
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/usually/ pretty good about going thru those. So perhaps either adding |
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such messages or making them a bit more visible might be useful. |
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Now that I know about it, I'm going to try it. If I find any bugs, I'll |
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be sure and file them. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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