MX 19 Repository: The Mesa/graphic drivers Thread

[SkOrPn]

Yeah, that's why I said it might be too early as well. BUT with that said, it is and has been extremely stable and been ready for consumers since September. So it is not too early for us consumers to test as it stands. I would like to test it, but I don't know how to install it outside of the Package Manager myself.

https://youtu.be/fm_mzPBnWB0

[m_pav]

I just tried upgrading Handbrake through MXPI to the testing version 1.3. That was a road to nowhere, says I already have the newest version 1.2.2 in the console output and MXPI still lists Handbrake as upgradeable.

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Fetched 565 kB in 2s (310 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
handbrake is already the newest version (1.2.2+ds1-1).
handbrake-cli is already the newest version (1.2.2+ds1-1).

[m_pav]

OK, scratch that. I rebooted the VM i was using to test the installation and it failed to run any of the packaging tools. I used the terminal to see what was causing it, sudo synaptic and it gave me a xapian::DatabaseCorruptError message, so I rebuilt the xapian database and all the package installers opened fine. Update came in for MXPI package list, ran and updated handbrake just fine.

Had I jumped the gun or was the xapian database at fault? I guess it was the xapian database because the VM was quite sluggish, taking far too long to complete the install process, but after the reboot, fix update and subsequent upgrade, I guess I'll never know.

[Stevo]

We put the 1.3.0 Handbrake I built against vanilla Buster in the test repo, and then another build I did against the "AHS" updates in the "ahs" section, in an effort to avoid breaking its va-pai hardware acceleration, which is rather fragile. So if you have left the new "ahs" section enabled, which which is what I would do if you've added it and upgraded everything from it already, it should show up as "handbrake_1.3.0-1~mx19+2ahs".

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$ apt policy handbrake
handbrake:
  Installed: 1.3.0+ds1-1~mx19+2ahs
  Candidate: 1.3.0+ds1-1~mx19+2ahs
  Version table:
 *** 1.3.0+ds1-1~mx19+2ahs 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.3.0+ds1-1~mx19+1 500
        500 file:/var/lib/local-apt-repository ./ Packages
     1.3.0+ds1-1~mx19+1 1
          1 http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo buster/test amd64 Packages
     1.2.2+ds1-1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages

We're already getting requests to do further updates of Mesa and friends in that section, but I'm going to hold off for at least a couple weeks, or perhaps put those in the test repo instead.

[Stevo]

I realize I didn't announce here about the new "ahs" section that we moved the new mesa and friends to (Advanced Hardware Support) to make them easier to upgrade. You just need to add that "ahs" (no quotes) to the main MX repo URL in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list file, after the "non-free", either in a GUI like Synaptic or manually, such as

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sudo fpad /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list

update apt, then check out the upgrades.

Since they seem to be working well, eventually those or newer versions will be default for a MX 19 point release, and we can still put new builds in the test repo before moving them to ahs.

[kmathern]

I realize I didn't announce here about the new "ahs" section that we moved the new mesa and friends to (Advanced Hardware Support) to make them easier to upgrade. You just need to add that "ahs" (no quotes) to the main MX repo URL in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list file, after the "non-free", either in a GUI like Synaptic or manually, such as

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sudo fpad /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list

update apt, then check out the upgrades.

Since they seem to be working well, eventually those or newer versions will be default for a MX 19 point release, and we can still put new builds in the test repo before moving them to ahs.

An mx-system upgrade I had a couple days ago added lines to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list for the "ahs" repo (commented out though)

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# MX Community Main and Test Repos
deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
#deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo/ buster test

#ahs hardware stack repo
#deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster ahs

You can enable it using MX Repo Manager or Synaptic.

[Stevo]

Thanks, I didn't check that. 64-bit users that want to test them out in a Live session can check out the respin I did with those packages and the backported Debian 5.3.9 kernel here: https://archive.org/details/mx19x64updated

though the ahs section didn't exist at the time.