[Mesa-users] I'm having trouble building mesa to support native steam on fedora 18 linux

[Sérgio Basto]

On Seg, 2012-12-10 at 10:38 -0800, Patrick Horgan wrote: 
> On 12/09/2012 06:10 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > ...elision by patrick...
> > Fedora normally is close to upstream , specially in beta releases. 
> >
> > You can see here 
> > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=184
> > mesa-9.0.1-1.fc18 is already built for Fedora 18
> >
> > and Intel-drv here:
> > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=7794
> >
> >
> > new Intel drive is bigger than 2.20.1x ?
> I built from git source and got 2.20.15.
> >> ... elision by patrick ...
> >>
> >> Should I be able to get this working on this hardware?  Is it a
> >> configuration problem?  I'd love to play steam games on this machine
> >> without using wine.
> > where is steam for Fedora, I'd love to test it also. 
> http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/how-to-use-steam-for-linux-right-now.html. 
> There's a repository you can get it from for fedora.  It's a limited
> beta but all that means is that if you run steam, it tells you that you
> aren't in the beta list, but if you give it arguments to go somewhere
> particular, for instance to look at your software, then it works just
> fine.  There's a number of steam games marked as linux architecture, and
> if you've already bought a windows or mac version you don't have to pay
> again for the linux version.  Also, tf2 is free.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> As to you.

# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
# wget "http://spot.fedorapeople.org/steam/steam.repo"
# yum install steam 

and is installing to me in F17, and yeah is updating to Mesa-9.0.1 and
installing  libwayland

Best.
-- 
Sérgio M. B.