Issued:

2013-02-20

Updated:

2013-02-20

RHBA-2013:0344 - mesa bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

mesa bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated mesa packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Mesa provides a 3D graphics API that is compatible with Open Graphics Library (OpenGL). It also provides hardware-accelerated drivers for many popular graphics chips.

The mesa packages have been upgraded to upstream version 9.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#835200)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• If the user logged in from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 machine by using the "ssh" command with the "-Y" option, an attempt to run an application that uses GLX failed with the "Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig" error message. This bug has been fixed and the remote login now works as expected. (BZ#786508, BZ#820746)

• Due to an error in the mesa packages, using the multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA) technique with the KWin window manager caused errors in the desktop compositing. This update provides a patch that fixes this bug and MSAA now works correctly with the KWin window manager. (BZ#885882)

• Previously, when connecting to a remote machine using SSH with the X11 forwarding enabled caused a "failed to load driver: i965" error in the libGL library. With this update, a patch has been provided to fix this bug and drivers are now loaded as expected. (BZ#901627)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancements:

• An accelerated driver for Intel Core i5 and i7 processors has been added to the mesa packages. (BZ#816661)

• This update adds the new mesa-dril-drivers package to mesa. This package implements support for the DRI1 drivers. (BZ#835201)

All users of mesa are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• mesa-libGLU-9.0-0.7.el6.i686.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-9.0-0.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-dri1-drivers-debuginfo-7.11-8.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libGL-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• mesa-libGL-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.s390.rpm
• mesa-dri-drivers-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-dri-filesystem-9.0-0.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-debuginfo-9.0-0.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-libGL-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.i686.rpm
• mesa-demos-9.0-0.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• mesa-libGL-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-dri-filesystem-9.0-0.7.el6.i686.rpm
• mesa-debuginfo-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-debuginfo-9.0-0.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• mesa-dri-drivers-9.0-0.7.el6.s390.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• mesa-libGL-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-9.0-0.7.el6.s390.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• glx-utils-9.0-0.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.i686.rpm
• mesa-demos-9.0-0.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-9.0-0.7.el6.i686.rpm
• mesa-dri-drivers-9.0-0.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.i686.rpm
• mesa-dri1-drivers-7.11-8.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-9.0-0.7.el6.s390.rpm
• mesa-dri-filesystem-9.0-0.7.el6.s390.rpm
• mesa-libGL-9.0-0.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• mesa-dri-filesystem-9.0-0.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-9.0-0.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-demos-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-dri1-drivers-debuginfo-7.11-8.el6.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-debuginfo-9.0-0.7.el6.i686.rpm
• mesa-demos-9.0-0.7.el6.i686.rpm
• glx-utils-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-dri-filesystem-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-9.0-0.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-dri-drivers-9.0-0.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-dri1-drivers-7.11-8.el6.src.rpm
• mesa-libGL-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-9.0-0.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• mesa-dri-drivers-9.0-0.7.el6.i686.rpm
• mesa-libGL-9.0-0.7.el6.i686.rpm
• mesa-9.0-0.7.el6.src.rpm
• mesa-dri1-drivers-7.11-8.el6.i686.rpm
• mesa-dri-drivers-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-dri1-drivers-debuginfo-7.11-8.el6.i686.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.s390.rpm
• mesa-dri1-drivers-7.11-8.el6.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• glx-utils-9.0-0.7.el6.i686.rpm
• mesa-libGL-9.0-0.7.el6.s390.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• glx-utils-9.0-0.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-debuginfo-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• mesa-dri-filesystem-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• mesa-debuginfo-9.0-0.7.el6.s390.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.s390.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• mesa-libGL-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libGL-devel-9.0-0.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libGL-9.0-0.7.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 786508
• This content is not included.BZ - 820746
• This content is not included.BZ - 885882

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information

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