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 1QU35f-0008S8-RW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:41:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DA471C04F; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from genesis.genestate.com (pathfinder.genestate.com [212.21.116.18]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD261C04F for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 346AB28F5E1 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:40:22 +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=1307479222; bh=JAEsxxxUBUjXe1DC8gV8kcmr2 s3DFN3Vh2dnKoSLV7k=; b=u85isNuciBwph6LH2vEpOpXiwGJNWwxk1ALcQyNT/ NPpJeHY+1WTSLL9FtnITn9kf4YkQG/Oc1HHkG1VpmipXLagn5lc+t62DErxHa+cE USTB2uKJIR0NDtKTj9tTvchPBvYUnhesgKDILRo+NXVqQAuvdbwVceIObv24DGwT /8= 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 eHdxdXUeMtGu for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:40:22 +0100 (BST) Received: from [10.194.217.19] (muffinbuffer.genestate.com [10.194.217.19]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 002C628F5DE for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:40:21 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4DEE8CA7.3050809@genestate.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:40:07 +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: 61dc5cadda5aed1fe6b417d33e68f274 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. The DRM driver compiles and loads, the next step is to build the vmwgfx module from mesa. There is a post on the vmware forums with a user who talks about "tweaking the ebuild" for mesa to get the module built. Unfortunately that's all the info he gives. Plus, the rest of the post ends with people pretty much giving up on the whole project. It sounds like vmware aren't really interested in continuing development for it...shame.