[3ddesktop-dev] Re: Problems wunning on debian sid (amd64)

I'm using 3ddesktop with 64 bit Ubuntu, and it works great (using xorg,
but previously used XFree86), which should basically be the same thing,
so I'm sure once the transition is over things will be great.

-Jeff

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 05:13 +0200, Mathias Weyland wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:35:21AM +0100, Luis Filipe Almeida Santos wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> > I've installed 3ddesktop from the amd63 Debian repositories (version 0.2.8).
> 
> I don't know any details about the amd64 repos because they are not
> officially part of debian yet.
> 
> But now is a bad time to play around with X11 packages in sid. Debian sid is
> just in the middle of the XFree -> Xorg transition atm.
> 
> I'd wait a bit and give it a try once the transition is over. Btw: Once the
> build dependencies are built on all architectures, we will upload 3ddesktop
> 0.2.9 into debian (which contains a patch for amd64). Pierre (the
> co-maintainer of the package) tested the package on his amd64 box and it was
> working. This was _before_ the Xorg transition, though.
> 
> If you want to give it a try now grab our non-official debian source package 
> and build it on your own. Or maybe it will even work if you just install the
> package described in the next paragraph.
> 
> Technical details: XF86VidModeQueryVersion can be found in libxxf86vm.
> In debian, this library came with xlibs-static-dev until now. After the Xorg
> transition, it will be available in libxxf86vm1/libxxf86vm-dev. That's why
> whe have to upload a new package which build-depends on libxxf86vm-dev and
> whose binary packages depend on libxxf86vm1. We will do that when
> libxxf86vm will be built onall archs.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Mathias Weyland
>

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