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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 23:17:59 JST minute

   i am having an extremely good time rn because i have a working blender 2.79 again on my MNT Reform (with A311D cpu). it is very snappy to work in and renders quickly on this machine. i can't use 2.80+ versions of blender because panfrost does not support geometry shaders, but 2.79 already has more than enough bells and whistles to keep me busy learning 3d stuff for a long time, i think ^^

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 23:21:29 JST minute

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     the way that i got this to work is extremely hacky btw. i'm on debian and i downloaded and extracted the blender-2.7-es2-2.79b binary package from manjaro, and checked for missing libraries with `ldd blender-2.7 | grep "not found"`. then i just clobbered together the missing libs from various rpms and tars i found with pkgs.org, and set a local LD_LIBRARY_PATH, until all deps were satisfied.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 23:22:30 JST minute

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     i call this the "frankenstein approach to avoid recompilation"

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 23:31:01 JST minute

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     • Wolf480pl

     @wolf480pl idk how that works, i have never used any of those distros

   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 23:31:02 JST Wolf480pl

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     @mntmn why not just make a manjaro chroot and then extract all the missing libraries from there?

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 00:01:57 JST minute

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     this binary collection is now available here if you also want to run blender 2.79 on your Reform or other Debian ARM64 device: https://source.mnt.re/reform/blender-279-es2-aarch64-bin

   • Raffaele Orabona (raffaeleorabona@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 02:21:03 JST Raffaele Orabona

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     @mntmn Did you ever try Arch Linux Arm on the MNT Reform or the MNT Pocket Reform?

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 03:06:31 JST minute

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     • Raffaele Orabona

     @raffaeleorabona not personally

   • 𝙢𝙣𝙩 (mnt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 03:31:50 JST 𝙢𝙣𝙩

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     @mntmn interesting to see the internals of blender laid bare by the packages it needs

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 21:36:32 JST minute

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     • pandora

     @pandora blender since 2.80 needs geometry shaders, which are not supported by panfrost nor etnaviv.

     in the future it might be possible on rk3588 if panthor implements vulkan one day or with qcs6490 and freedreno/turnip. or with vulkan support on rpi 5, not sure if that works though.

   • pandora (pandora@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 21:36:33 JST pandora

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     @mntmn would blender 3.x work? I guess the gpu on the mnt ist not supported?

   • FrostBeast (frostchild@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 11:13:53 JST FrostBeast

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     @mntmn I assume when you say that, you aren't mixing stuff like ubuntu and debian to make a frankendebian. Couldn't resist a joke lol.