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Public bug reported:

Now Mesa with floating point texture support and GL_S3_s3tc support is
already available in Xorg-Edgers PPA, but this PPA is designed to
provide unstable stuff and sometimes requer kernel update, to get video
drivers working. It's can not be used by typical user on daily basis.

I suggest to provide Mesa-build with floating point texture support and
GL_S3_s3tc support (libtxc-dxtn0 in "requered dependecy" list) in
Jockey, like proprietary drivers.

Many users have a legal right to not comply United States patent law. In
the past and now such users install restricted addons/extras package and
get H.264, AAC, DTS, etc. decoding support. I suggest to extend this
practice to 3D stuff in Ubuntu and also install floating point texture
support and GL_S3_s3tc support by default, if user select checkbox in
installer.

Notably it's important because now FOSS drivers (for example radeon
driver) in some cases can offer almost of 60-80% speed (in compare with
proprietary drivers) on middle- high-end GPU. It's already acceptable
for many users.

** Affects: jockey
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: mesa (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: jockey
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Please provide Mesa with floating point texture support and GL_S3_s3tc
  support in Jockey, like proprietary drivers

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