xf86-video-ati: No fragment shader?

[Corbin Simpson]

Markus Strobl wrote:
> 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

In driconf, disable low-impact fallbacks. This will eliminate at least
one of the error messages, and keep it from falling back to software
rendering.

~ C.