[Mesa-dev] Question.

[Ian Romanick]

On 04/01/2013 10:11 AM, Mark London wrote:
> Sorry to post this here, but no one answered me on the mesa-users
> mailing list.
>
> A recent update of mesa-dri-drivers on Redhat 6 (upgraded 7 to 9),
> removed the nouveau_dri.so file, which libGl uses.  Does anyone know why
> Redhat might have done this?  I've looked through redhat's bugzilla, but
> no one there seems to have reported this.  We don't have a service
> contract with redhat, so my experience is that they are unlikely to
> respond to my query.
>
> Programs that try to find nouveau_dri.so, display an error, and then
> they use swrast_dri.so instead.
>
> Should I create a symbolic link (or alternative), to remove this error
> message, or should I simply downgrade to the previous version of
> mesa-dri-drivers?

For a Fedora specific issue, you should probably submit a bug to their 
tracker.  That will surely get someone's attention.  People here (and on 
dri-users) don't generally have any insight into what the distros do.

> Thanks. - Mark
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