Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org> (2015-05-23): > > Is there a possibility to backport Mesa 10.5.5 to Jessie? > > > > With the current Mesa version in Jessie, I am unable to use MPV with > > opengl-hq and scalers which offers big improvement to the image > > quality over the default and similar ones without getting choppy > > video playback with my Haswell based Intel GPU. While users of other > > distro's which has mesa 10.5.5 reports that the same configuration > > of MPV works fine on even slower CPU and GPU from intel. > > > > A lot has happened since 10.3 regarding opengl performance in > > general which will benefit when playing games and other opengl > > applications. I have seen a few users on debians irc support > > channels wanting/needing a newer mesa for playing games. Be aware that the X stack has quite a lot of dependencies, and you might need to also backport libdrm, and other various x11proto* and lib* packages. I've done that for squeeze, it's certainly doable, but can take a fair amount of time/patience. :) > In general, please either contact the maintainer of the package in > question (debian-x@l.d.o) to see if they would be willing to provide a > backport, or prepare your own backported package and ask for > sponsorship here on the list if you're willing to maintain the > backported package yourself (see instructions at [1]) for the lifetime > of jessie. If neither of these options are possible, be prepared to > wait indefinitely; it's fairly uncommon for folks here on > debian-backports to prepare backports on request from others. > > (I can't speak on behalf of the mesa maintainers, but I'll point out > that the Debian X team is quite small and is unlikely to be willing to > backport mesa and maintain/support the backported package themselves.) Having stepped down from X maintenance, that's not on my to-do list, but I might end up looking into that backporting dance again, should I find some interested customer; unless someone does the work beforehands. :) Mraw, KiBi.
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