[Mesa-dev] Question.

[Kenneth Graunke]

On 04/01/2013 11:19 AM, Ian Romanick wrote:
> 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

According to the RPM changelog:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/22/idpl/20346591/com/changelog.html

it looks like nouveau was removed from that package a while ago, and 
cites bugzilla.redhat.com #745686.  You might check that...