From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QU2ia-0005no-0U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:17:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D95D1C158; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from genesis.genestate.com (pathfinder.genestate.com [212.21.116.18]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B8D1C158 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:16:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C48EB28F5E1 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:16:13 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=genestate.com; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:in-reply-to:references :subject:mime-version:user-agent:from:date:message-id:received :received; s=default; t=1307477773; bh=aGJiKqsBSvfBpKq4jDh2jE9EL YSPdMlf10h6JV/vPVM=; b=eZcxt4e3Dh5iy2w/TmD+h/yjTJdS+3Dy3YcYN+UX0 LpNgBXzwoZaSlU/mfnrzqCKe0FLrqAM/VNIqWfS1G+6GS1B0rqdR7ZNgGkIXuJvp wqC6RmJjLXBAeLznXwS+8u4RtfvWBOP/OSDwjlukAfzZloSCLNwj/NVK7eYKWy5Q u4= Received: from genesis.genestate.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (exodus.genestate.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id nsNC39RfPhyG for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:16:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from [10.194.217.19] (muffinbuffer.genestate.com [10.194.217.19]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7A5EC28F5DE for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:16:13 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4DEE86FE.4090909@genestate.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:15:58 +0100 From: Matt Harrison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware opengl References: <4DEE715C.8010606@genestate.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 862eeaa7852649ffeffde4c06a0be5c5 On 07/06/2011 20:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 06/07/2011 09:43 PM, Matt Harrison wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work >> reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to >> see how the latest DMs are coming along. >> >> The current KDE4 is vastly improved from last time, extremely responsive >> and everything is really nice...except that I cannot get opengl working >> for compositing. >> >> The virtual machine has acceleration enabled, everything relevant has >> opengl compiled. I'm not very experienced with X/opengl/etc so I'm not >> sure what else needs to be done. >> >> glxinfo gives me: >> >> name of display: :0 >> Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig >> >> I'm not sure if it's even possible to get opengl working here...but I >> assume it is as a mythbuntu vm works perfectly displaying live tv etc. >> >> Anyway, any tips on this subject appreciated. It's hard to find anything >> on google related to this. > > You need to use the vmware DRM kernel driver and vmwgfx Gallium driver. > Only then can you have accelerated 3D in Linux guests. > > The DRM driver is easily enabled in the kernel configuration (it's in > the "staging drivers" section). Not sure about the vmwgfx gallium driver > though. > > Thanks both of you, I'll take that as a no, but I'll keep playing and see if I can get anywhere :)