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On 29/07/2013 17:38, András Csányi wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I would like to some clarification to support my feeling regarding |
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> gallium related use flags in mesa package. |
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> For some reason I have to rebuild a few packages on my machine and |
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> xorg-server and mesa are among them. I experienced that if the "xorg" |
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> USE flag of mesa is enabled then I got compiling error. After a little |
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> searching I could see that this use flag enables gallium3d. |
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> My question is that, as a nvidia user - I have an nvidia card and I |
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> use a nvidia driver from nvidia-drivers package - do I need this use |
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> flag? Do I need the gallium related use flags in mesa? |
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> Thanks in advance for any help! |
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> András |
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Don't use gallium with nVidia's proprietary driver. Gallium is the |
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architecture used by mesa for all open source 3D drivers (intel, radeon, |
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nouveau, etc). |
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nVidia bypasses all of that and does their own thing. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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