[Mesa-users] Need help proving I am using POLARIS10 drivers and upgrading OpenGL to 4.5

[Benjamin Bellec]

Hi,

I checked the github ticket.

Your dmesg output shows indeed you run on a RX 470 GPU, but the driver used
is LLVMPIPE, a software-based OpenGL renderer. So the amdgpu driver (which
enable hardware acceleration of your RX470) is NOT used.

You are confused with VMWare because VMWare is labeled as the vendor of the
LLVMPIPE driver (I don't remember the story, but I guess VMWare people was
the creator of this LLVMPIPE driver in Mesa, hence the vendor name in the
driver information).


> My RX470 should support OpenGL 4.5. my glxinfo says it only supports
OpenGL 3.0
Be careful, glxinfo output 2 OpenGL version : the "Core profile" and the
"Compatibility profile" (also called Forward Compatible).
The Compatibility Profile is stuck OpenGL 3.0 because Mesa do not support
more than that.
But, if you used the amdgpu driver, you should indeed see OpenGL 4.5 for
the Core profile version.
That said, if you use LLVMPIPE, I don't know what if the max OpenGL core
version.

Regards.

2017-07-13 15:48 GMT+02:00 Oflameo <oflameo2 at gmail.com>:

> https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K/issues/2363
> https://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=5634
>
> I can't run Zero-k anymore for some reason. On Debian 8 it was running
> slow, but on Debian 9 it wouldn't start. I am being told by a spring
> engine developer that I am using VMWare drivers. My dmesg and glxinfo
> says I am using POLARIS10.
>
> https://springrts.com/mantis/view.php?id=5620
>
> The same engine developer that I am having problem with is saying that
> the will not support OpenGL less than 4.1. My RX470 should support
> OpenGL 4.5. my glxinfo says it only supports OpenGL 3.0. Backported
> libdrm-2.4.81 from unstable and 17.1.4-git-1 from git. I don't know how
> to make the system use the new version of mesa.
>
> I used the this guide https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-latest
> -mesa-version-on-debian-9-stretch-linux to build mesa 17.1.4-git-1 and
> installing it in /opt/mesa/ to avoid contaminating the file system but
> I don't know how to tell the OS to find and load it. I am still running
>  Mesa 13.0.6.
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