xf86-video-ati: No fragment shader?

[Markus Strobl]

Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> On 15.03.2009 19:18, Markus Strobl wrote:
>   
>> Just wondering if there's any work ongoing to fix the issue with
>> googleearth where it exits with "no fragment shader" Using
>> xf86-video-ati? It works fine with fglrx.
>>
>> Everything else works fine with xf86-video-ati: Composited desktop (KDE4
>> w/ effects), glxgears etc. Just googleearth refuses to work.
>>  
>> Graphics are a R430 (ATI X800XL), xf86-video-ati-6.12, mesa-7.3.
>>     
> This is independent from xf86-video-ati. I suggest you try a newer mesa
> version (it looks to me like the error you quote there can only come
> from a pre-7.0 mesa version, in fact).
>
> Roland
>   
Thanks, Roland. That helped in that I found I had an old parallel
install of googleearth installed that I cleaned out and I also found a
newer 32-bit mesa (the machine is 64-bit). Unfortunately it still
doesn't work. The googleearth screen comes up but when it tries to
render the earth it crashes with this:

Warning: Unable to create prefs directory '/home/markus/.googleearth'.
File exists.
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x69
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x21
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x21
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x21
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x21
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x21
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x21
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x21
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x22
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x22
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x22
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x22
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x22
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x22
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x22
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x22
*********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
File r300_render.c function r300Fallback line 428
Software fallback:ctx->Line.SmoothFlag
***************************************************************************
Try R300_SPAN_DISABLE_LOCKING env var if this hangs.
*********************************WARN_ONCE*********************************
File r300_state.c function r300_setup_rs_unit line 1391
fragprog wants coords for tex0, vp doesn't provide them!
***************************************************************************
drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -22 (exiting)

I tried setting the R300_SPAN_DISABLE_LOCKING var but it did the same
thing (the R300_SPAN_DISABLE_LOCKING line in the console printout
disappeared, otherwise the same).

Anything else I can try?

/Markus