[PLUG] libpthread-stubs and X seems to be changing...

[Joe Pruett]

> I'm running CentOS 5.3 which is undoubtedly more stable than Fedora.
> I'm updated as much as I believe I can be but Mesa is too ancient to
> support Secret Maryo Chronicles and Command and Conquer Red Alert for
> example.  I want to upgrade Mesa, but finding the home page and
> grabbing the source for Mesa-7.4.1 I find that there is a libdrm
> dependency and grabbing libdrm-2.4.9 source code I find that there
> is a pkgconfig pthread-stubs.pc dependency.  Digging deeper on
> freedesktop.org I find that X is apparently changing radically.
>
> Has anyone updated CentOS enough to run Command and Conquer Red
> Alert under Wine?
>
> Yeah I suppose I could drop in another hard drive and try another
> Linux distribution, but which one?

if you're just needing glx stuff you might be able to just load the ati or 
nvidia proprietary drivers, depending on what video card you have.