Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 127349
Newer DRI modules don't have any package for them
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:45 EST
Description of problem: Most 3d drivers are absent in fedora. Newer ones from the DRI project are out. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): any How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fedora, with, for instance, a supported DRI card (savage, 3dfx, sis, ati, etc) 2. Run glxinfo 3. Direct rendering: NO Actual results: Fedora is awfully slow with most video boards Expected results: Fedora be lighnting fast with a $500 video board which is actually supported by linux. Additional info: Most distributions don't come with most recent advances in DRI technology. This makes linux a piece of crap about gaming/3d modelling on these days. Fedora could push the linux desktop again, as Red Hat Linux did before, and as it did with kernel/selinux.
Fedora Core 2 ships with X.Org X11 6.7.0, and includes all of the DRI drivers which come with that X release. The DRI drivers are developed by the DRI project, and are merged into the X.Org and XFree86 CVS repositories several times a year when DRI CVS head stabilizes. Once new drivers, or updated drivers make their rounds in this process, they eventually get into the upstream X.Org repository and will be included in a future X.Org X11 release. Until new DRI drivers have made it through this process, they are experimental/developmental and are not suitable for inclusion into Fedora Core. Feel free to beta-test the DRI project's binary snapshots if you are interested in doing so however, as this will help to stabilize newer drivers sooner, and will improve the quality of them once they are deemed ready to be included in X CVS and future releases. Closing bug report as "NOTABUG"