[Nouveau] Current state - how to get gallium-stuff running?

[Maarten Maathuis]

On 3/8/08, Christopher James Halse Rogers <chalserogers at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 21:32 +0100, Hanno Böck wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > As the last tindc said something about 3d really working on nv4x, I wanted to
>  > try that ( on a NV43). Built nouveau/mesa -> gallium-0.1 branch of mesa and
>  > git head of libdrm, kernel-drm and xf86-video-nouveau.
>  >
>
> First, the obligatory disclaimer: "really working" doesn't exactly
>  translate to "Wooo!  I can drop that annoying binary blob!".  You should
>  be able to get textured OpenGL support, and be able to run OpenArena at
>  reasonable framerates until it crashes, though :).
>
>
>  > glxinfo says:
>  > nouveau DRI driver expected DDX version 1-1.2.x but got version 0.0.10
>  >
>
>
> I've seen other people reporting this error.  I've never seen it myself,
>  which suggests to me that it's user error _somewhere_ :).  Can you
>  describe the exact steps you took, and their output.
>
>  For reference, after building & installing git head of libdrm &
>  xf86-video-nouveau, I can clone the
>  git://anongit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/mesa repository, check out the
>  gallium-0.1 branch and "make linux-dri-x86-64 DRI_DIRS=nouveau" to
>  build.  Then exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH to point
>  to the mesa lib/ directory, I could run OpenArena, glxgears, etc.  Not
>  as of yesterday; it would die in emit_fence, but that's the right
>  process.

It may be that DRI_DIRS=nouveau_winsys is needed.

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