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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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[Now in AUR!] S3TC libraries for open source Xorg drivers

Due to the typical retarded patent issues, S3TC support can't be packaged with Mesa or the Xorg drivers; instead, it's a separate set of libraries, available here, which probably cannot be distributed as a binary. It looks easy enough to install manually, but it would be nice if someone could maintain a PKGBUILD so users could let pacman keep track of it.

(Apologies if the libraries turn out to be illegal in the US or Canada; I had nothing to do with the software patent silliness.)

Edit: Forget the request, this doesn't look as bad as I thought... As soon as I'm certain it's working, I'll make a PKGBUILD and upload it.

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2008-03-08 06:39:25)

Gullible Jones

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Re: [Now in AUR!] S3TC libraries for open source Xorg drivers

FWIW it looks like binary distribution may not be such a huge problem, there's a binary package of this available for Debian. I would certainly like to see it as a binary, but let's not be hasty.

Anyway, I've uploaded the PKGBUILD. If you're using an Intel chipset, or a Radeon chipset with the OSS driver, and you have installed this and want to know if it's working, do this:

gxlinfo | grep -i s3tc

Obviously, feel free to report any problems.

Edit: here's the PKGBUILD.

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2008-03-08 06:38:33)

Staerseus

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Registered: 2009-11-07

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Re: [Now in AUR!] S3TC libraries for open source Xorg drivers

Hello, there is problem with instalation, that S3TC file, what is used by your pkgbuild cannot be found on that server.

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