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

[Oflameo]

On Sat, 2017-07-15 at 08:26 -0400, Oflameo wrote:
> 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?
> 

I figured out the answer. You have to shutdown X11 and run `Xorg
-configure` and then copy the output file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and
then start X11, then X11 will run with a newer version of mesa.
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