Comment 128 for bug 43154

(In reply to comment #28)
> VIA provides only binaries for DRI modules these days, so they should not be
> considered in the context of this bugreport. We are not even able to find the
> time to fix bugs in a free dri driver, so feel free to explain how we could
> support binary only drivers.
>
[quote]stinke on Ubuntu lauchpad[/quote
Okay, so someone has reported the new release in the
DRI Mailing List [1] and it's been commented.

It doesn't look like Valentine Sinitsyn and Luc Verhaegen
have really had a look at the sources (yet).
From what I can tell everything except the libddmpeg.so
is provided as source code in the package,
contrary to what they are saying.

The only question is if what is provided can resolve the Texture issue
for the K8M800. I've read some very contrary reports in [2]
and the Via Arena forum. OTOH I'm not sure those people
are using this new code at all as it shouldn't even start X
with the VIA BIOS checksum of the K8M800
(or maybe just mine? Can someone verify?).

I'll see this evening If I can compile the X driver without
the checksum check and see what happens.