Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] * Package name : mesa-amber Version : 21.3.9-1 Upstream Contact: Debian X Strike Force <[email protected]> * URL : https://mesa3d.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : free implementation of the OpenGL API -- Amber GLX vendor library
Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL. To the extent that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command syntax or state machine, it is being used with authorization from Silicon Graphics, Inc. However, the authors make no claim that Mesa is in any way a compatible replacement for OpenGL or associated with Silicon Graphics, Inc. This version of Mesa provides GLX and DRI capabilities: it is capable of both direct and indirect rendering. For direct rendering, it can use DRI modules from the libgl1-amber-dri package to accelerate drawing. --- Source code is on https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/lib/mesa-amber This package is useful because there are still older computers whose graphics cards are not supported by the current Mesa version shipped with the latest versions of Debian, such as the Radeon 9200 series that use the R200 microcode. This is because I have an older computer that holds such a card, so I use it from time to time. I plan to maintain it someday, inside the Debian X Strike Force team https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/XStrikeForce, once I find time to do this.
