I got the following error message with GLX applications after upgrading to one of the newer xorg-server ebuilds: "SiS DRI driver expected DDX version 0-0.8.x but got version 0.7.1" After some digging through the code of xf86-video-sis I found out that the provided DDX interface version is made dependant on the Xorg version code which must be higher than 6.8.99.900.0: (sis.h in xf86-video-sis) #if XORG_VERSION_CURRENT >= XORG_VERSION_NUMERIC(6,8,99,900,0) #define SISISXORG6899900 #endif and later: #ifdef SISISXORG6899900 #define SIS_MINOR_VERSION 9 /* DRI changes */ #define SIS_PATCHLEVEL 1 #else #define SIS_MINOR_VERSION 7 #define SIS_PATCHLEVEL 1 #endif So it provides DDX version 0.7.1 on old, and 0.9.1 on new Xorgs. I have installed xorg-server-1.3 which identifies itself as 1.3 instead of 7.3 effectively switching this DDX interface version back to 0.7.1. The version number is defined in /usr/include/xorg/xorg-server.h. I changed it to 7.3 temporarily and now GLX with my SiS driver works again after recompiling it. I am not sure where to fix the problem (in the driver or in xorg-server) because many drivers seem to check for versions even >= 7.2 which won't work with xorg-server-1.3 altough it is indeed newer. Since thus this may break many drivers it should probably be fixed somewhere else. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install xorg-server-1.3 with xf86-video-sis-0.9.3 2. Run a GLX application like GLX gears Actual Results: I get the following error and GLX falls back to using software mode: "SiS DRI driver expected DDX version 0-0.8.x but got version 0.7.1" Expected Results: See the GLXgears hardware-accelerated (which worked with xorg-server < 1.3 or < 1.2 -- not sure) I cannot actually say since which xorg-server version this problem occurs because I didn't use GLX for a longer time. But it worked with one of the earlier xorg-server versions.
If this isn't fixed in 0.9.4, please reopen.
