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FS#28485 - [mesa]Enbale SVGA and the Statetracker in mesa 8.0

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Egon Ashrafinia (Wubbbi) - Friday, 17 February 2012, 12:54 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 10 March 2012, 09:39 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Hello.

As I wrote with Andreas Radke, the maintainer of mesa in Archlinux, I would like to open a feature request for mesa.

Is it maybe possible to enable the SVGA gallium driver in mesa? This is the gallium driver for VMware which enables 3D support. This can be packed in a package called "svga-dri". As it does not conflict with any other package and just provides new features, it sould not be any problem to implement it.

My second request is to enable the statetacker in mesa. This is done with "--enable-xa". The benefits are:
* When you go and rebuild xf86-video-vmware against it, it will support KMS and 3D support.
* Also it enables the ATI statetracker driver for Xorg, which is not used by default but can be enabled.

Also here, there are no conflics with any current feature or package. You can pack it into a new package called "mesa-statetracker" for exaple.

As a VMware user I really would like to see that in mesa, as it will give us 3D support in the Virtual Maschine.

Thank you and greetings

Egon Ashrafinia

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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Saturday, 10 March 2012, 09:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Egon Ashrafinia (Wubbbi) - Tuesday, 06 March 2012, 14:42 GMT
Any news on this topic? =( Seems like everyone is ignoring it!

Greetings
Comment by Jessehk (Jessehk) - Thursday, 08 March 2012, 07:12 GMT
I would also like to express my support for this feature. Without it, Gnome 3 goes into fallback mode when Arch is installed as a guest under VMware. It's a critical feature.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 09 March 2012, 20:44 GMT
Please check Mesa 8.0.1-2 in testing with xa tracker enabled and new svga-dri pkg.
Comment by Jessehk (Jessehk) - Saturday, 10 March 2012, 06:25 GMT
Wonderful. Thank you, Andreas.

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