I've been trying and trying to build a new version of the
dri-trunk-sid packages but each
DRI CVS checkout I've tried has one problem or another. All versions of DRI
after 2005-04-20 have a nasty Radeon bug that makes some textures flash
black and white. CVS versions from 2005-04-17 to 2005-04-20 have a compilation
bug in posix_tty.c that I really don't feel like isolating. I'm working my
way back from that date to find the last good CVS checkout. You might say
"so what if there is a Radeon rendering bug, DRI covers many other video
chips." Well, out of 100-200 different emails commenting on the dri-trunk-sid
packages only a handful were related to anything other than ATI Radeons.
There are a few people using these packages with old ATI Mach64 cards, VIA,
Savage, and Matrox, but Radeon is the favorite by an order of magnitude.
Any new version of these packages that has obvious Radeon rendering problems
will fill my email inbox with an endless stream of complaints.
I'd like to fix drm-build so that dri-trunk-sid will work properly on PPC and
AMD64 machines. I'd also like to package up driconf, but damn it's taking a
long time to find a working CVS checkout date.
