From: Roland S. <rsc...@hi...> - 2004-04-17 22:27:21
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Alex Deucher wrote: > --- Vicchius <vic...@li...> wrote: > >>Hi! I've read on some forums that it is possible to have Texture >>Compression working with my Radeon 8500. I've found some info but not >>enough to build a working driver... >>Now I'm running the R200 dri-driver that comes with XFree 4.4, and >>S3TC >>is not enabled. Is there any way to enable it without passing through >>CVS, nightly builds at all? > > > > The only way to enable it is to pull down a copy of mesa and DRI cvs > and apply the s3tc patch in the dri-devel archives, then build the > whole thing. Yes. Someone has written a (mostly correct) guide for that, http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=154662 (where it says "Now copy all the modules (should be 3) to /lib and /usr/X11R6/lib" you only need to copy the .so file, and only to one place not two!). It's outdated though, you now need to get the drm module too to get it to compile (which is described here, http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Download). Note that Brian is doing some major rework in the texturing code currently, I believe it is safe to say that this will break the patch. If that happens either get an older cvs version of Mesa, or wait for a new patch to appear... Roland |