Confused at OpenGL version in -current

dive · 08-28-2014, 08:15 AM

ok that's a relief

PrinceCruise · 08-28-2014, 12:56 PM

I was following this thread and I happen to test this on my Thinkpad laptop running -current fully updated and the result looks strange :-

Quote:

bash-4.3$ glxinfo |grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits)
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.2.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:

VMware? It's a physical machine. Any ideas?

Regards.

ReaperX7 · 08-28-2014, 04:52 PM

VMware is the developer.

You need to probably exit X and run xorgsetup and refresh your xorg.conf.

TobiSGD · 08-28-2014, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by PrinceCruise

I was following this thread and I happen to test this on my Thinkpad laptop running -current fully updated and the result looks strange :-

VMware? It's a physical machine. Any ideas?

Regards.

Please use code-tags, not quote tags for command output, so that proper quoting is possible without having to do it manually.
Anyways, the llvmpipe part in that output tells us that your machine is running with software rendering, it isn't using your GPU for output. Which exact hardware do you have and how have you configured the driver?

PrinceCruise · 08-29-2014, 01:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

VMware is the developer.

You need to probably exit X and run xorgsetup and refresh your xorg.conf.

I've another kernel 3.17.0-rc2 installed which takes a minute to start X after booting with the last message "Unable to connect to X server" but I didn't get a chance to look at that. I think I may have messed up the xorg.conf file BUT I remember running xorgsetup from this rc2 kernel.

PrinceCruise · 08-29-2014, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Anyways, the llvmpipe part in that output tells us that your machine is running with software rendering, it isn't using your GPU for output. Which exact hardware do you have and how have you configured the driver?

Ah, that's strange. Its a Thinkpad L412 running Intel i5-540M with integrated Intel® HD Graphics. Here-Intel i5-540M

I will post the exact h/w details once I reach home but unfortunately I'm flying to another city tonight so I'll be able to access my laptop only after 3 days.

Current on this machine has been working excellent since the very day and I think it has been using the xf86-video-intel driver only. See above reply to Reaper, I think while configuring xorg in kernel 3.17.0-rc2 I may have messed it up(?).

Regards.

TobiSGD · 08-29-2014, 07:09 AM

xf86-video-intel that comes with Slackware should work fine with that videochip, so it may indeed be a problem with the kernel.