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[Warren Togami]

Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
>>>OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
>>
>>One thing I'm willing to test is 3D support for Radeon IGM cards (like
>>the one on my laptop). Since you're an XFree maintainer at RH, could you
>>help me test it without seriously breaking FC?
> 
> 
> Radeon IGP 3D support is not present in XFree86, including the 
> upcoming 4.4.0 release.  It is present only in DRI-CVS as 
> experimental support which is in a developmental state.
> 
> I do not have Radeon IGP hardware and do not generally use 
> DRI-CVS except to cvs rdiff out bug fixes occasionally, and to 
> occasionally check in bug fixes.
> 
> The DRI project website has a lot of both developer and end user 
> documentation on using DRI-CVS as well as binary driver 
> snapshots.  I can't help you directly to get it working, but if 
> you follow the documentation and/or ask for help on the DRI 
> mailing lists, someone might be able to help you to get it to 
> work.
> 
> Also, since I often get asked - I have no plans of including this
> into our XFree86 until it is considered stable and mainstream.  
> With the current flux going on over at XFree86.org right now, it 
> isn't even clear wether XFree86 will exist in a few months or 
> not, so it could be a while before this is supported.
> 
> 

May I also point out that this kind of non-canon package is exactly what 
we intended to exist in "Fedora Alternatives".  I am thinking now that 
Alternatives will contain sub-projects like this, specifically packaged 
for Fedora Core by volunteers who actually use it, and either 
experimental in nature or conflicting in nature.  Alternatives would be 
available in many non-canon apt/yum/up2date channels that you can add to 
your configurations and aside from being distributed from 
download.fedora.redhat.com you must rely entirely on the community 
developers for support.

Warren