Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[Gideon Hallett <diogenes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 13 June 2001 12:12, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
> * Brian Galbraith <bgalbraith@xxxxxxx> [010613 14:04]:
> > Can I install the packages with yast....do I need to play around with Sax
> > 2?
> >

The simplest install method for binaries is simply 'rpm --nodeps -Uvh *.rpm' 
- it will just plonk everything into the right places (usually!).


> Here is what I learned version x.1.0 is a dangeroues version. think
> about all the problems with 7.0 of suse 7.0 of redhat 2.4.0 kernel etc.
>
> there are lots of screaming going on in the XFree86-expert mailing list
> regarding DRI issues.

I can't get DRI to work properly with 4.1.0 - 2D stuff seems to work fine, 
but if you attempt to make the DRI drivers as per the README on the FTP site, 
you (well, I do) get the following;

In file included from gamma_drv.c:72:
drm_vm.h: In function `gamma_vm_shm_nopage':
drm_vm.h:110: structure has no member named `virtual'
drm_vm.h:89: warning: `physical' might be used uninitialized in this function
make[1]: *** [gamma_drv.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-modules/drm'
make: *** [all] Error 2


> On the other hand I do not think SuSE is going to put a package to the
> ftp before they test it especially with the DRI.

That's usually the case, but I've had a number of cases where upgrades just 
broke things.

 cheers,
       Gideon