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 1QU3gM-0003zv-7U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:19:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD58C1C0D0; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from genesis.genestate.com (pathfinder.genestate.com [212.21.116.18]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F2681C0D0 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 21:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83FEF28F5E1 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:18:06 +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=1307481486; bh=8yrgKzscvixuSd89XLYVMg23L q05AGTPkb/jF9eWCsQ=; b=FsifSLZcHIa3gHomJfUBRhL0xzLciYZFjXFb1GwS2 1CKZHQhDhItNDDFt/3z2cn3eqTc+QVooC7ByUc/aJk2JQY1JARBivOdfCPmYj1ub rkDdMzP3auWZDvF1WBzNKqVxV80TyLml3vwHy8VTF4LBn3NGyLX+Qf3C857IQtWP Ys= 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 GkRMcrIvVX3A for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:18:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from [10.194.217.19] (muffinbuffer.genestate.com [10.194.217.19]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3C7E328F5DE for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 22:18:06 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4DEE957F.8070905@genestate.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:17:51 +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> <4DEE8CA7.3050809@genestate.com> In-Reply-To: <4DEE8CA7.3050809@genestate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fd6a1304afb4a68fe304909e6845c5ad On 07/06/2011 21:40, Matt Harrison wrote: > 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. Well I eventually managed to get the vmwgfx gallium driver to compile, but I get an undefined symbol when trying to load it with xorg. I'll give up with it now unless anyone else has an idea. It was a nice thought that I might get to see the power of vmware opengl :P