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Contents

  1. Source
    1. git
    2. gitweb
    3. Building from git
    4. Releases
  2. Binaries
    1. Snapshots
      1. Upgrading to X.org 6.9 CVS
    2. Debian packages
  3. Configuration GUI

Source

The components of the DRI have been moved into their respective upstream repositories. The DRI drivers reside within Mesa, and the 2D drivers reside in [X.Org http://www.x.org/]. The remaining component is the DRM, which is maintained in a git tree on freedesktop.org.

git

To check out the drm code: 

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm

gitweb

The source and history can be viewed on the web at http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/

Building from git

See the Building page.

Releases

The release tarballs are available at http://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/

Binaries

Snapshots

Note: Binary snapshots that are currently available for download are not up-to-date. They are likely to have bugs that are fixed in CVS/GIT in the mean time. Please do not report bugs against them.

Note: Binary snapshots are currently not being built. The value of binary snapshots with modular Xorg is questionable and technical problems make it very hard to build one snapshot that works with both modular and monolithic Xorg.

Nightly snapshots of the DRI drivers for Linux are available from http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/. You need to download and install the correct snapshot for your graphics card and a "common" snapshot in order to get all new DRI features. The "common" snapshot does not need to be updated as frequently as the card-specific snapshot.

Note: If you are using a radeon 8500 or higher (8500, 8700, 9000, 9100, 9200, IGP9100, etc.) choose the r200 shapshot, otherwise choose radeon (7000, 7200, 7500, IGP320, IGP340, etc.).

Note: If you have a i830/45/55 graphics chip you now need the i915 snapshot. The i830 driver is deprecated and no new snapshots are produced for it.

Upgrading to X.org 6.9 CVS

Binary snapshots only work with a recent X.org X server. If you're running a version of XFree86 or X.org older than 6.9 RC1 then you must install an X.org server (Xorg.bz2) and driver modules (Xorg-modules.tar.bz2).

Note: It is important that you install X.org before you install the actual binary snapshots.

Note: After installing this upgrade X.org will have no graphics drivers. You need to install the snapshots (both common and the one for your graphics card) in order to make X.org work.

This is how you install Xorg and modules.tar.bz2:

The following sequence of commands should work in bash: 

wget http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/extras/Xorg.bz2
wget http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/extras/modules.tar.bz2
 
mv -f /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg.backup
bzip2 -d Xorg.bz2
cp Xorg /usr/X11R6/bin
chmod 4755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg
 
mv /usr/X11R6/lib/modules /usr/X11R6/lib/modules.backup
tar -C /usr/X11R6/lib -xjf modules.tar.bz2
 
cd /etc/X11
rm X
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg X
if [ -f XF86Config-4 ]; then cp XF86Config-4 xorg.conf; fi
<edit xorg.conf>

Debian packages

The Xorg packages in Debian unstable can be used with the binary snapshots. 

# cat >> /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
^D
# apt-get update
# apt-get -t unstable install xserver-xorg

You'll need the linux-headers package for your kernel installed in order to compile the kernel modules: 

# apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

Then just follow the instructions for installing the snapshots as above.

Configuration GUI

The DRI configuration GUI DriConf is available for download from http://dri.freedesktop.org/~fxkuehl/driconf. There are versions available for gtk-1.2 and gtk-2. If you're unsure which version to download check out the DriConf page. It also contains installation instructions and links to the most recent versions.

http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/RecentChanges