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

[Oflameo]

On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 16:30 +0200, Benjamin Bellec wrote:
> 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.
> 
How do I change the Driver? How do I load my newer Mesa from /opt/mesa?

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