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Re: [SLE] Enabling DRI for Twister K (S3 Savage) integrated laptop graphics?
- From: Jos van Kan <vankan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:50:19 +0200
- Message-id: <43182E6B.1050402@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Paul Howie wrote:
There is no problem installing non-SuSE packages from source as long as you use checkinstall. You use the triple ./configure, make, checkinstall instead of ./configure, make, make install. Checkinstall will build you an rpm that you can install in the normal way using Yast or rpm+SuSEconfig.
That way your conserve system integrity.
If this package is moved into the distro in a later version and you upgrade to that version you have to lift the taboo on the package. (The small lock icon in Yast). A normal upgrade will leave third party packages untouched.
Best regards,
--
Jos van Kan www.josvankan.tk
I'm running SuSE 9.2, but I'm going to move to 9.3 soon.
I was wondering if anyone had any success enabling DRI for SuSE 9.x
and a Twister-K graphics chipset?
I tried a while back but ended up giving up because I wasn't sure
which of the required components (Xorg, MESA, DRI) would need updating
from the standard SuSE versions, and what effect it would have on
system stability and RPM management if I installed non-SuSE packages
from source.
Any news appreciated.
There is no problem installing non-SuSE packages from source as long as you use checkinstall. You use the triple ./configure, make, checkinstall instead of ./configure, make, make install. Checkinstall will build you an rpm that you can install in the normal way using Yast or rpm+SuSEconfig.
That way your conserve system integrity.
If this package is moved into the distro in a later version and you upgrade to that version you have to lift the taboo on the package. (The small lock icon in Yast). A normal upgrade will leave third party packages untouched.
Best regards,
--
Jos van Kan www.josvankan.tk
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