dri & lombard

James Mandy yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun Feb 15 17:27:01 2004


> I want to have dri and xv support for lombard. AFAIK, this is only
> possible recompiling X with support for my card (Rage LT), this is what I
> found on the net:
> <http://www.geekounet.org/powerbook/driplusxv.html>
> before putting my computer to compile X and reinstalling it, is there
> anything I should do to not breake everything else? (I mean, I still want
> the nice ydl->gdm login and all the other stuff)
> will the usual make; make install work and not breake all the other stuff
> YDL installs by default?
> thanks a lot,

Can you not just add the appropriate lines into the XF86Config ?

Let me know of your experiences, so I can suss mine too. I cant play back
ANY video files at any decent frame rate on my lombard, it's annoying. I'm
yet to try the DVD....

James