joyride keyboard problems & GL/glx

[Daniel Drake]

Just a quick FYI: the keyboard bugs in recent joyrides (various buttons 
not working or misbehaving) is fixed by the X server update in joyride 2207.

The problem was that a Fedora 9 update included an updated evdev driver, 
which had been compiled against a newer X server (we have forked 
xserver, so we don't automatically get updates there). I have resynced 
our xserver with Fedora's so we support the new ABI which evdev uses.

Resyncing the X server was not quite as simple as you might expect. 
Previously, X was compiled along with the mesa sources to offer 
software-based GL. The software GL is very slow but word on the street 
is that some activities use it anyway.

In the newer X server, the software GL implementation (dri_swrast) has 
been moved to mesa, which we don't include in our builds. The newer X 
server also includes a bug which caused it to crash when no swrast was 
present, I wrote a patch included in our build which I will be 
committing to freedesktop git upstream shortly...

Anyway, at the moment, we have no swrast in our build, which means no GL 
support at all. Does anyone care?
I am going to work with Fedora to get the swrast module separated from 
the overweight mesa-dri-drivers - this could return in future if we need it.

Sorry for any inconvenience, this was the most straightforward way of 
getting a working X and a working keyboard again.

Daniel