<html><head></head><body><div>On Sat, 2017-07-15 at 08:26 -0400, Oflameo wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 16:30 +0200, Benjamin Bellec wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I checked the github ticket.<br><br>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.<br><br></div>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).<br><br><br>> My RX470 should support OpenGL 4.5. my glxinfo says it only supports OpenGL 3.0<br></div>Be careful, glxinfo output 2 OpenGL version : the "Core profile" and the "Compatibility profile" (also called Forward Compatible).<br></div>The Compatibility Profile is stuck OpenGL 3.0 because Mesa do not support more than that.<br></div>But, if you used the amdgpu driver, you should indeed see OpenGL 4.5 for the Core profile version.<br></div>That said, if you use LLVMPIPE, I don't know what if the max OpenGL core version.<br><br></div>Regards.<br></div> </blockquote><div><font size="2"><font size="1"></font></font><br></div><div><font size="2"><font size="1">How do I change the Driver? How do I load my newer Mesa from /opt/mesa?</font></font></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div></body></html>