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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:54:13
Message-Id: h2r7dc$mam$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri by Roy Wright
1 On 07/05/2009 12:16 PM, Roy Wright wrote:
2 >
3 > On Jul 5, 2009, at 12:13 PM, walt wrote:
4 >
5 >>>
6 >>> I have no libdri.so anywhere on my system. Eselect shows nvidia and
7 >>> xorg-x11; I tried both, it did change some symlinks, but never created
8 >>> one for libdri.so...
9 >>
10 >> I'd be more worried about this than the keysym errors. I have
11 >> xorg-server-1.6.1.902
12 >> which installs these two (and of course much more):
13 >> /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri.so
14 >> /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri2.so
15 >>
16 >> When I use eselect to set the opengl version to xorg-x11, it sets a
17 >> symlink:
18 >> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so ->
19 >> /usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/extensions/libdri.so*
20 >>
21 >> If you don't have these libs and links then I'd say as your first
22 >> chore you should
23 >> figure out why they're missing.
24 >>
25 >>
26 >
27 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml
28 >
29 > DRI is a kernel option.
30
31 Interesting link, thanks. I see that for some ATI cards kernel support
32 is needed, as you say. It doesn't seem to involve nvidia cards though.
33 because nvidia has their own kernel modules.
34
35 Now that you got me thinking, I notice that I have the dri USE flag set
36 in make.conf, so that might be a consideration too.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X broken; keyboard for sure, maybe dri felix@×××××××.com