Enabling DRI for Twister K (S3 Savage) integrated laptop graphics?
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. -- Paul
Paul Howie wrote:
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
On 02/09/05, Jos van Kan <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> wrote:
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.
Thanks, it isn't just dri that I've had pause before installing from source before. It's nice to know it's possible to do without messing up yast. Cheers. (by the way, I tried to send this off list but you seem to be blocking the gmail ip. Fair enough as long as you know :) ) -- Paul
* Paul Howie <paulhowie@gmail.com> [09-03-05 12:28]:
(by the way, I tried to send this off list but you seem to be blocking the gmail ip. Fair enough as long as you know :) )
It *is* preferred that you maintain your conversation _on_list_ that others with similar problems might benefit from your experiences. After all, that is the main purpose of the list. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
On 03/09/05, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@gmail.com> wrote:
* Paul Howie <paulhowie@gmail.com> [09-03-05 12:28]:
It *is* preferred that you maintain your conversation _on_list_ that others with similar problems might benefit from your experiences.
After all, that is the main purpose of the list.
I appreciate that, but I was just sending a quick thanks. Didn't seem like it would help anyone else to know I'd thanked him. I stand corrected -- Paul
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