"extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display" upgrading XFree86 to 4.3.0 on Sarge

Moloko · 03-30-2004, 02:59 PM

With a properly working hardware accelerated Voodoo3 card I upgraded XFree86 to 4.3.0 from the Sarge repository and glxinfo now reports "extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display".

Is this a bug yet to be resolved? According to XFree86 a Voodoo3 should be working with accelaration with 4.3.0, so I'm kinda lost here.

Moloko · 03-30-2004, 04:38 PM

Dependencies are screwed as well, libglu1-mesa (5.0.0-5.1) can't be installed next to xlibmesa-glu (4.3.0-7), the latter giving some problems as far as I know right now with other packages. Dselect wants to uninstall most of KDE and some apps.

Moloko · 03-30-2004, 05:04 PM

Seems to come down to xlibmesa3-gl (a lot of dependencies), which has been replaced by xlibmesa-gl and xlibmesa-dri. I guess it will take some time to fix this...

mrcheeks · 03-30-2004, 05:48 PM

don't use dselect, use apt-get.

Moloko · 03-31-2004, 03:36 AM

Even with the dependencies troubles I don't see why the hardware acceleration doesn't work anymore.

Moloko · 03-31-2004, 05:06 PM

Problem is solved. For some reason the 3D acceleration now only works in 1024x768 or less. It worked fine before with 1280x960 pixels, so I overlooked this completely. It's a darn shame, that is, but it still works ().

note. Bugreport can be found under #234388, the more Voodoo3 users complain the better. It may get fixed.