Building the X.org 7.1.1 server against Mesa CVS

Michel Dänzer michel at tungstengraphics.com
Sun Oct 22 03:28:57 PDT 2006


On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 15:52 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > I am pursuing the angle that my compositor troubles[0] are caused by my
> > X server not being built against Mesa CVS, which is installed on my
> > machine. To that end I'm trying to recompile xorg-server 1.1.1 against a
> > Mesa CVS tree. It fails:
> 
> I finally was able to compile and run Mesa CVS and xserver git (I was told the 
> black bars issue was an X server issue and I should upgrade it). Now I am 
> hitting up against the "white screen issue" wherein if you start one of these 
> buggers (beryl or compiz) the screen turns entirely white.

This is expected, current xserver git temporarily doesn't support
everything required by compiz and friends after a big reorganization of
the GLX code. According to Ian Romanick, this will 'soon' be rectified
in the form of full GLX 1.3 support.


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Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer




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