S3TC => r600{c,g}

[RavFX]

http://cosmicencounter.net/images/tiling.png

It's a pre-S3TC screenshot but it's the same issue.

PS : Why the edit limit is less that one minute? I did not get the time to remember the screenshot url...

[RavFX]

For problem number 3 : Disable color tiling, it will fix it. (Have the same unresolved bug here)

[mmoo]

S3TC does not work for me. I am using r600g from mesa-9999 (compiled with R600_ENABLE_S3TC=1, USE_EXTERNAL_DXTN_LIB=1), xf86-video-ati-9999, libtxc_dxtn-1.0.0, drm-radeon-testing (2.6.38-rc8-44191-g38f1cff), libdrm-9999 and even wine-9999, all checked out in the last hour and...

glxinfo |grep -i s3tc
    GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_env_combine4, GL_S3_s3tc, 
    GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,

but...

1. L4D is one green screen: http://img816.imageshack.us/i/l4d.png/
2. L4D2 doesn't start: "I need compressed texture support blah blah": http://img560.imageshack.us/i/l4d2.png/
3. NWN and native Unreal Tournament look like some distorted, multiplied slices: http://img192.imageshack.us/i/nwn.png/

some weeks ago it worked, but I don't know how and why this changed, but the result obviously sucks

[pvtcupcakes]

I'm using the edgers ppa 2.6.38-4 kernel.
I don't have enough space to compile the kernel myself unless I can do it from an ntfs drive.

Yeah, you need to use the kernel in the drm-radeon-testing branch from here
It has one change that you need for s3tc that hasn't been merged into the mainline kernel yet.

[MikeEx]

I'm using the edgers ppa 2.6.38-4 kernel.
I don't have enough space to compile the kernel myself unless I can do it from an ntfs drive.

[pvtcupcakes]

That's strange that WoW doesn't render correctly for you. It works for me on my 4850.
Player models aren't all messed up or anything. I used to have that problem, but it went away after going to the latest Mesa and doing all the stuff to enable S3TC including using the kernel from drm-radeon-testing.

The only problems I had with WoW was the performance wasn't that good (10-20fps), and the icons for items and abilities would sometimes not render correctly. And going underwater gives you a psychedelic view.

[MikeEx]

what a quick minute. oh well. proper links.

http://exfactor.net/misc/wowr600g1.png
http://exfactor.net/misc/wowr600g2.png
http://exfactor.net/misc/wowr600g3.jpg

[MikeEx]

I tried wow.
For what it's worth, I'm impressed.
http://www.exfactor.net/misc/wowr600g1.jpg
http://www.exfactor.net/misc/wowr600g2.jpg
http://www.exfactor.net/misc/wowr600g3.jpg

I crashed after a few seconds when I exited the instance.

athlon x2 3800+, hd4850 1gb

[amphigory]

S3TC is working nicely for me. Darkplaces engine with Tecnox mod running 55FPS at 1366x768. Oh yeah... the hardware is a Acer netbook (AO721) with single core K125 & M880G (R600) GPU. I'll have to try a more recent game engine soon as time allows.

Kernel 2.6.28-rc5 & Mesa from git.

[darkbasic]

So it might be merged into 2.6.38, it doesn't seem like a huge change to allow compressed textures through it.

It would be awesome, but I don't think it will ever happen