Bug 242662 – app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs: upgrade mesa to get 3d support for newer radeon cards (r500+)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description bb 2008-10-18 22:19:43 UTC]

pls add mesa 7.2 to app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs to offer 3d support for newer ati cards

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge googleearth
2. googleeart
3.

Actual Results:  
only slow software rendering

Expected Results:  
fast hardware rendering

[Comment 1 Henning Fleddermann 2009-01-16 19:09:18 UTC]

This is basically the same bug as 204755. The best solution imho seems to be to at a multilib-useflag to the regular mesa- and libdrm-ebuilds, but the Xorg-Team is unwilling to support this. But there are ebuilds attached to 204755 which build multilib mesa and libdrm.

[Comment 2 ferret 2009-07-12 22:52:59 UTC]

Please, please, please update the mesa drivers and libraries in this package.

On ATI Xpress 200M cards, a very common laptop video card, the r300_dri.so provided by this package crashes the *entire* system if you do anything even remotely 3D.

For now I compiled my own version with multilib gcc and it works perfectly well, but I prefer having stuff out of portage... even if it is a craptastic mess of binary files rather than a nice multilib system as seen in bug #204755

[Comment 3 Premek Vohnout 2009-08-14 20:07:51 UTC]

If you want working googleearth, try multilib overlay. For more info connect to #gentoo-multilib-overlay on freenode irc

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2009-12-27 10:42:15 UTC]

app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20091226 includes updated libdrm and X packages

[Comment 5 Chase Rayfield 2010-02-06 21:11:02 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20091226 includes updated libdrm and X
> packages
> 

app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20091231 is broken if I downgrade to 20091231 acellerated 3D again works in wine. 

This is on mesa-9999 11:39:57 02/06/10 and a radeon 4200 IGP
glxinfo | grep DRI 
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RS880 9712) 20090101  TCL DRI2

[Comment 6 Chase Rayfield 2010-02-06 21:13:12 UTC]

I mean it is functional again if I downgrade to app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20081109 sorry for they typo

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2010-02-07 10:51:56 UTC]

Open a separate bug report, anyway, emul packages are expected to work on "stable" setups (I mean, I am not sure how will it work with mesa-9999)

[Comment 8 Pacho Ramos 2010-02-07 10:57:58 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Open a separate bug report, anyway, emul packages are expected to work on
> "stable" setups (I mean, I am not sure how will it work with mesa-9999)
> 

I mean, expected to work "better" on them, you can see what versions are included in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/emul/content.xml

If you are needing to use some testing packages for solving X problems, then, the problem could be on emul packages not including that fixed versions