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setzer22

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Registered: 2014-07-26

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What does the mesa 10.3.0 package upgrade exactly mean?

I was going to perform a system upgrade, before doing so, I read all the news so I don't break aything and found this:

mesa is now available with some packaging changes:

Related to the megadriver work done, splitted dri drivers doesn't have sense anymore, all dri drivers are now packaged in mesa-dri.

vdpau drivers are now in mesa-vdpau package.

So, I'm an AMD (ATI) graphics card user. Does that mean that all the functionality given by the package ati-dri is now provided by mesa-dri? I'm trying to be cautious and not break anything so I thought I'd better ask before upgrading.

PD: Also, will this change in any way the way to include openGL libraries in C/C++? Will the header GL/gl.h still be available?

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Re: What does the mesa 10.3.0 package upgrade exactly mean?

The mesa-dri package replaces ati-dri, intel-dri, nouveau-dri, and svga-dri. If you had any of these installed before, you will be prompted to replace them with the mesa-dri package when you upgrade. The GL/gl.h header is provided by the mesa package, not the *-dri pacakges, so that won't change (AFAIK).

EDIT:

Does that mean that all the functionality given by the package ati-dri is now provided by mesa-dri

It should be. If it isn't, you should file a bug.

Last edited by WorMzy (2014-10-15 10:09:14)

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