Is anybody working on packaging / documenting installation of Mesa 9.X
on Wheezy? I want to help out if I can for documenting Mesa 9 in Wheezy.
I noticed this guide: http://x.debian.net/howto/build-mesa.html Does
not seem to work anymore because of new versions of Mesa upstream.. You
now need to compile drm as well. Some of the ./configure flags in that
guide for mesa don't exist anymore.
I was able to successfully compile drm + mesa 9 (32-bit) in Debian
Wheezy (64-bit/multiarch) in order to run Steam (32-bit proprietary
binary) software well on Intel Ivy Bridge hardware.
* Many users of the radeon open source drivers get significant
performance gains when running Mesa 9.X.
* People running Intel graphics on Ivy Bridge or Sandy Bridge graphics
chips /need/ to run Mesa 9.X or they will get severe graphical
glitches in Team Fortress 2 and some other very popular Steam games
to the point where they aren't playable.
In case anybody is interested, I started using this guide here:
http://x.debian.net/howto/build-mesa.html. I followed those directions
until I started compiling Mesa and it failed because the drm version was
too old.
So then I started following this guide here:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building#Building_libdrm
Which worked great for building a 64-bit mesa on my 64-bit Wheezy, but
that wasn't what I needed.. So I got some help from some forums and
installed the following build dependencies...
libudev:i386 libxcb-dri2-0-dev:i386 libxcb-glx0-dev:i386
libxdamage-dev:i386 libxfixes-dev:i386 libx11-xcb-dev:i386
libxext-dev:i386 libcairo2-dev:i386 libfontconfig1-dev:i386
pkg-config:i386 libpciaccess-dev:i386 libc6-dev:i386 gcc-multilib
g++-multilib gcc:i386 c-compiler:i386
Then changed the compile flags..
export CFLAGS="-m32"
export CXXFLAGS="-m32"
./autogen.sh \
--enable-driglx-direct \
--enable-gles-overlay \
--enable-gles1 \
--enable-gles2 \
--enable-glx-tls \
--with-driver=dri \
--with-dri-driverdir=/usr/lib/dri \
--with-egl-platforms='drm x11' \
--with-state-trackers=egl,glx,dri,vega \
--with-dri-drivers=i965 \
--enable-32-bit \
--disable-64-bit \
--enable-gallium-llvm=disabled \
--enable-gallium-gbm=disabled \
--enable-gallium-egl=disabled \
--with-gallium-drivers= \
--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
After that, I was able to build Mesa 9 (32-bit) for Intel Ivy Bridge
graphics, no problem.
Not sure if that's useful to anybody, but I hope that it is. Running
Ivy Bridge graphics, previously Team Fortress 2 (32-bit proprietary
binary) would have a big green square from the introduction movie and
then go to a black screen with graphical glitches for the menu.. Now the
game runs perfectly fine and smooth at 1920x1080 resolution and medium
graphics settings with Mesa 9 from git using open source Intel graphics!
Cheers and thanks for your time.
-David Smith
