From: John L. <jo...@ni...> - 2004-07-23 13:23:35
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On Thursday 22 July 2004 17:23, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: > Since the packages from Micahel D=E4nzer are outdated and don't > contain the S3TC patch we now have the strange situation that the > lates non-free ATI drivers are easier to use on Debian GNU/Linux > than the lates DRI drivers. > Would it be possible to cretae a system for unsing the DRI drivers > similar to the one used for the ATI drivers. For the ATI drivers > there exists an easy way to cretae Debian packages form them. > > I think it would be useful if there were a script that downloads the > drivers, > applies the S3TC patch if the user cooses to and creates Debian packages > optimized for the user's processor. > I have updated versions of Danzer's packages online here: http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ The last set of DRI packages I made are from July 7th. Since then I've bee= n=20 adding the S3TC patch and haven't put them online. If someone outside the = US=20 is willing to host them, I'll gladly share the newer versions with S3TC=20 compiled in.=20 John |