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