R600 Gallium3D Driver Now Supports S3TC Library

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Originally Posted by crazycheese

Michael: "there is not" >> "there is no"

On topic: Shifting legal burden on user may prevent major distributions in shipping that support. As it was with libdecss

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and there will be tutorials/packages/whatever on how to enable it the next day

someone buy Dave a beer (or more) :p

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Originally Posted by 89c51

someone buy Dave a beer (or more) :p

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I'd rather buy him some amphetamines and increase his productivity :P

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Originally Posted by Perry3D

Can you do a little test for me?
What happens if you remove the lib after recompiling mesa with the lib? Are you getting segmentation faults or undefined references? Or does just the support for texture compression disappear?

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I just tried. Uninstalled it and restarted xdm. Everything keeps working correctly and only S3TC support won't work anymore.

So I guess Mesa/Gallium just tries to load the lib at runtime. That's good; that means anyone can install it and it will "just work".

Yay. :) :)

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Originally Posted by RealNC

I just tried. Uninstalled it and restarted xdm. Everything keeps working correctly and only S3TC support won't work anymore.

So I guess Mesa/Gallium just tries to load the lib at runtime. That's good; that means anyone can install it and it will "just work".

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Yes, it is dynamically opened at runtime.

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Originally Posted by DanL

I'd rather buy him some amphetamines and increase his productivity :P

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Use the donation button at: www.drugsfordaveairlie.com


:p

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Originally Posted by HokTar

and even Christian Konig seems to be working on something else.

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Why do you guess that? If i understand it he is working on optimize Gallium3D for the Video stuff.

I don't know whether you know, but Marek had done some work in multi-threading drivers direction. At least for r300g.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes...899f4d5a5ac7b8
I suppose that it will land in r600g shortly. :) Kudos to Marek! :cool:

David has just increased by 1000% the number of r600g users.
As soon it's in rawhide, I will erase fglrx from my HDD :D

These commits are our St-Valentine gift.

Anyone knows whether to find libtxc_dxtn sources?