*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1053065 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053065
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1053065
MIR for s2tc, required by various games
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/823062
Title:
Please provide Mesa with floating point texture support and GL_S3_s3tc
support in Jockey, like proprietary drivers
Status in Jockey driver manager:
Invalid
Status in “mesa” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in “mesa” package in Debian:
New
Bug description:
Now Mesa with floating point texture support and GL_S3_s3tc support is
already available in Xorg-Edgers PPA, but this PPA is designed to
provide unstable stuff and sometimes requer kernel update, to get
video drivers working. It's can not be used by typical user on daily
basis.
I suggest to provide Mesa-build with floating point texture support
and GL_S3_s3tc support (libtxc-dxtn0 in "requered dependecy" list) in
Jockey, like proprietary drivers.
Many users have a legal right to not comply United States patent law.
In the past and now such users install restricted addons/extras
package and get H.264, AAC, DTS, etc. decoding support. I suggest to
extend this practice to 3D stuff in Ubuntu and also install floating
point texture support and GL_S3_s3tc support by default, if user
select checkbox in installer.
Notably it's important because now FOSS drivers (for example radeon
driver) in some cases can offer almost of 60-80% speed (in compare
with proprietary drivers) on middle- high-end GPU. It's already
acceptable for many users.
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