[gentoo-dev] xfree-4.2.0-r4

[gentoo-dev] xfree-4.2.0-r4

[BoehmeSilvio]

Hi !

Why is xfree-4.2.0-r4 masked ?
As is see, this version provides glu/glut.

The last versions did't provide this, so i have to merge mesa-glu.

Is it save to try r4 ?

By

Silvio

[gentoo-dev] xfree-4.2.0-r4

[Michael Rychlik]

  I did an emerge of xfree-4.2.0-r4 after unmasking it locally. 
Everything seemed to work just fine. Except once again there was no 3d 
acceleration for my Voodoo 3 card (I always seem to get this). I tried 
all the debugging steps suggested on dri.sourceforge.net and they all 
indicated that DRI was working. Trouble was it was not !
So I created an xfree-4.2.0-r5.ebuild on my machine with the following 
lines added:

        echo "#define XF86CardDrivers vga tdfx mga ati i810" >>  
config/cf/host.def
        echo "#define BuildXF86DRI YES" >>  config/cf/host.def
        echo "#define HasGlide3 YES" >>  config/cf/host.def

If you look at the ebuild you will see where to put these after:

        echo "#define DefaultCCOptions -ansi" >>  config/cf/host.def

Then I copied the r4 digest to an r5 digest:

#cp /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/files/digest-xfree-4.2.0-r4 
/usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/files/digest--xfree-4.2.0-r5

and did:

emerge  x11-base/xfree-4.2.0-r5

Many hours later I have gears running at 222.2 FPS instead of 33, ta da !
OK this only an old K6 266 box so this quite good I think.

This assumes you have glide 3 installed already I guess.

3dfx has always failed for me with Gentoo (And every other distro I 
 have tried). Perhaps we need a "USE 3dfx"  variable to fix this. Sorry 
I don't have time to get serious about this just now.

Anyway I hope this helps someone.


Michael Rychlik.

In sunny Finland.