[Solved] nouveau ST3C support

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ravloony · Post by **ravloony** » Sun May 13, 2012 2:56 pm

So I use the Nouveau drivers for my GeForce GTS 250, which is great. However I came across this article on Phoronix : http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTA5NTM

Apparently ST3C is now supported by Nouveau. I would really like to get this running under gentoo. Does anybody know how?

Gusar · Post by **Gusar** » Sun May 13, 2012 3:09 pm

It says what you need right there in the article.

eccerr0r · Post by **eccerr0r** » Sun May 13, 2012 3:16 pm

I think all you need to do is emerge libtxc_dxtn just like all the other OSS drivers. I have to use it with the intel OSS drivers for exactly one application: Wine/World of Warcrack.

ravloony · Post by **ravloony** » Mon May 14, 2012 1:23 pm

Ok it works. Here is the procedure:

Add the x11 overlay.
unmask =media-libs/mesa-9999 and =xf86-video-nouveau-9999
emerge -1 media-libs/mesa xorg-server xf86-video-nouveau
emerge media-libs/libtxc_dxtn

This maybe overkill, but it does work.