Questions tagged [mesa]
Mesa is a software library for 3D computer graphics that provides a generic Khronos-compliant OpenGL implementation for rendering three-dimensional graphics on multiple platforms.
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Terminal command to show OpenGL version?
I want to find out the OpenGL version I'm using. I have access to Ubuntu via SSH. Which command shall I execute?
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Since 23 May 2023 Ubuntu 22.04 Mesa updates, Chrome won't display website graphics
These updates were installed this morning:
[UPGRADE] apport:amd64 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.4 -> 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
[UPGRADE] apport-gtk:amd64 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.4 -> 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
[UPGRADE] dpkg:...
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how to address apt-upgrade problem involving libglx-mesa0 and Nvidia driver
I have an Nvidia 1070 system with Ubuntu 18.04, Nvidia driver 396.37, CUDA 9.0, and then TensorFlow and Keras running on it.
Having run sudo apt update, when I run sudo apt upgrade, I get the ...
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Is there a GUI for configuring the Radeon Open Source Drivers and Mesa 3D similar to Catalyst Control Center?
Is it possible to change the settings of the radeon open source drivers and Mesa 3D graphics library? I am thinking of something similar to Catalyst Control Center that would allow me to control ...
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How can I know if my GPU card driver supports Vulkan?
I have 3rd gen Intel mobile CPU i5-3210M, with integrated HD4000 graphics.How can I tell what driver version (i915) I have and does it support Vulkan? What Mesa version I have in Kubuntu 16.10?
What ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.1 upgrade failure / ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'Broken packages after upgrade: colord'
I am trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04.5 to 20.04.1 via:
$ sudo do-release-upgrade
This fails as follows:
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Could not calculate the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the ...
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"error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32" installing ATI drivers
I was following the instructions on section 3.2 of this page.
Everything went well until step 8, which is to use sudo amdconfig --initial
to create a new xorg.conf file, but I get the following ...
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Now that Mesa 9.2 stable is a out, is there a way to upgrade to it in Ubuntu 13.04 without using unstable ppas?
I have a notebook with an AMD graphics card and I use it for games occasionally. The performance in Ubuntu 13.04 using open-source drivers is only OK, but I understand that mesa 9.2, combined with a ...
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Weird screen flicker/tearing while using 75hz on AMD GPU
I hope it's not making much difference that I'm posting my question here even if I'm using Pop!_OS. The problem also occurs on a Manjaro live usb.
I'm using a
Ryzen 1500x CPU,
16GB of RAM,
MSI ...
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Upgrading to latest version of OpenGL on Ubuntu 15.10
I currently have an intel integrated GPU Intel 5100 iris graphics and I would like to upgrade to the latest version of OpenGL available. I currently have OpenGL 3.0 and mesa 11.0.2 installed.
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OpenGL Warning not in mesa table
I am running Ubuntu 13.04 on a virtual machine.
My host is:
windows 7
64 bit machine
i7-2630QM
NVIDIA geforce gtx 460M graphics
I have installed openGL, glut and mesa onto my Linux OS in the ...
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How can I tell if I'm using LLVMPIPE?
This question is directly based on a comment/question that can be read here.
I have a netbook with a Radeon X1200 series (RS690M) that's using the radeon driver.
Unfortunately, I'm experiencing ...
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How do I install the latest Mesa release?
Which is the preferred way to install the latest stable version of Mesa on Ubuntu? I believe that would be a PPA, but not the bleeding-edge one like xorg-edgers.
I would like to see a PPA that ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Graphics freezes for 1-2 seconds every 5 seconds
Since I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop, a few days after a reboot the graphics starts to freeze for about 1.5 seconds every 5 seconds. It goes away immediately after a reboot, but I have ...
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Updating OpenGL from version 3.0 to latest 4.5
I am trying to update my OpenGL driver to the latest version. I have tried the following ppas:
ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
ppa:eek:ibaf/graphics-drivers
ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates
So far nothing works....
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libGL.so and gl.h not available from standard path [closed]
I've just done a fresh install of 11.10, + nvidia-current from xswat ppa (cause the current version shipped with ubuntu is broken for my gpu).
Please take time for understanding each steps. I don't ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS R9 390X amdgpu guide / testing summary
I cannot get amdgpu to load as driver. Instead it always loads radeon.
Setup:
Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
i7-5830k
2x R9 390X
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Updating OpenGL support (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Mesa 12.0.6)
I'm not an expert and am looking for troubleshooting guidance.
I'm pretty sure my GPU hardware supports OpenGL 4.3, but I'm actually just looking for support up to 4.1 since I have Mesa 12.0.6 ...
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Ubuntu 23.04 ignoring Nvidia (535) driver after system updated mesa pkgs
Running 23.04 with Nvidia RTX 2070 Super and proprietary Nvidia driver 535.Yesterday (july 13 2023) I ran an apt update/upgrade and got a nice chunk of mesa updates. This has left the system ignoring ...
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Intel HD 3000 'Gen6+ requires Kernel 3.6 or later.' Ubuntu 12.04 Kernel 3.5
I have a Core i5 with an Intel HD 3000, and i use Ubuntu 12.04 x64 with kernel 3.5.0-18, and PPA xorg-edgers for video drivers.
And i think after last update, apps are crashing a lot:
VLC won't play ...
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Force OpenGL software rendering for specific programs
I am running Ubuntu 16.10 in Virtualbox (v5.1.10 latest) on a Windows 7 guest. All OS are x64.
Since forever, Virtualbox has had the problem that enabled "3D HW acceleration" crashes some OPenGL ...
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OpenCL 1.2 for AMD Card
On my laptop a have a discrete card that should support OpenCL 1.2 which I need to run the desired framework:
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation ...
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Install Mesa? How?
I want to try to install the mesa driver to see if it helps my FPS with radeon gpu for Dota 2.
However, I can't find a proper way to install it.
How would I go about it? I tried adding the ppa and ...
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Opengl Mesa : use opengl 4.0
I'm an opengl programmer, and I would like to use opengl 4.0; problem is that I cannot install any proprietary drivers, and when I type : glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version" in the terminal, it outputs me ...
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How do I install OpenGL 4+?
I've spent the past 3 days searching and can't find anything. I have an optimus setup with ironhide and a GT520M nVidia card; how do I install the latest version of OpenGL?
I keep getting "...
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Ubuntu 18.04 -> 18.10 doesn't boot
After an upgrade from 18.04 to 18.10, my ubuntu does not boot and just losing the signal after the grub.
I cat login with "nomodeset" but then the resolution is lower and can't be changed.
Here are ...
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libgl - failed to load driver: vboxvideo
I'm attempting to run this code to create a transparent xlib window with openGL features, but when I run the program I get these errors in the terminal:
libGL error: pci id for fd 4: 80ee:beef, ...
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higan says that OpenGL 3.2 is not available, but I should have 3.3
I am running Trusty with gnome in crouton on a Toshiba Chromebook 2. I installed higan, and it reports: "Error: OpenGL 3.2 is not available." I googled this, and apparently the problem may be related ...
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Installing missing package that provides Xm/Xm.h
I'm compiling a software package that requires a header file. The header file is missing from my Ubuntu 11.10 (64-bit) installation. During the compilation using make, gcc and gfortran, I receive ...
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How to make Ubuntu 22.04 work with a Radeon RX 7900 XTX?
I know that for such new hardware would be better to use a rolling release distro or at least the latest 22.10, but I was wondering if with some tinkering it is still possible to get the latest LTS to ...
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Set ATI/AMD GPU Fan speed with MESA Driver
My video card's (Sapphire ATi Radeon HD 3650) temperature reaches 150°C in 5 minutes and then it stops working.
I installed fglrx and it works now. I can even play 3D games for 5-30 minutes.
If I use ...
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vdpau on Ubuntu 13.10 and mesa 9.2.1
I've just installed Ubuntu 13.10. I have a Radeon HD 4570 card and I want to use the hardware acceleration capabilities that were introduced with linux 3.10 in the mesa 9.2
So my question is: since I ...
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How to upgrade mesa-opencl-icd
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.1 lts (amd64).
It seems that mesa 20.3 supports opencl 1.2, so
Register the kisak-mesa PPA repository and
I tried to install mesa 20.3.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa: kisak / ...
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Chrome stop working after upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04
Last night I've upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 and now Chrome won't start.
10:20:00 /opt/google/chrome$ ./chrome
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to open i915 (search ...
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I know exactly which package is causing me problems, but it must be installed. What are my options?
Both Steam and VLC are broken on my Xubuntu 22.04 LTS machine. VLC gives the simplest error logs.
$ vlc 'myVideo.AVI'
VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)
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Is is possible to render ONLY Compiz with Unity3D using llvmpipe?
Basically, I have very poor 3D performance on everything OpenGL when using Unity3D. GLXGears gives me an average fps of 33FPS on Unity3D, while using Unity2D gives me an average of 58FPS. So, I was ...
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eglinfo ACCEL_WORKING query results in permission denied
When I execute eglinfo from the mesa-utils package, I get failures:
$ eglinfo
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GBM platform:
amdgpu_device_initialize: amdgpu_query_info(ACCEL_WORKING) failed (-13)
amdgpu: amdgpu_device_initialize ...
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Trying to use latest Mesa breaks OpenGL on amdgpu in Ubuntu 19.10
I'm having an issue upgrading to the latest Mesa drivers (anything >= 19.3) from any external repository, in this case oibaf.
In the past I did not have any issues doing this, but a couple of months ...
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glxinfo Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
I have a Ubuntu 16.04 server with 3 Quadro P5000. I downloaded LINUX X64 (AMD64/EM64T) DISPLAY DRIVER with version number 390.77
I installed several mesa packages
$ apt list --installed | grep mesa
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steam: missing libGL.so.1 and libdrm.so.2
I am attempting to install steam from the ubuntu repos on Xubuntu 17.10, and am running into a dependecy issue.
Steam requires these two 32bit libraries:
The following packages have unmet ...
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xdriinfo says Screen 0: not direct rendering capable
When I give xdriinfo command to check the driver associated with my laptop screen, I'm getting the following response although I have Intel HD Graphics 5500
Screen 0: not direct rendering capable.
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Using Mesa EGL with custom protobuf version
I'm using a multi platform EGL application on Ubuntu and I can't compile it anymore after upgrading from Ubuntu 16.10 to 17.04.
The problem is the app uses Protocol Buffers 2.6.1 internally and Mesa ...
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How do I uninstall the mesa drivers now I've switched my graphics to nvidia?
As per Why-are-my-32bit-opengl-libraries-pointing-to-mesa-instead-of-nvidia, I've managed to get ldconfig to no longer reference mesa drivers by editing the conf files, but when the mesa GL drivers ...
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Unable to locate package mesa?
Following this guideline.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
then,
sudo apt-get update
Followed by
sudo apt-get install mesa
The last results in:
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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VMWare: Check if 3D Hardware is used for rendering or not
How do I check whether my VMWare installation is using the GPU on the computer or using software rendering?
The output from glxinfo is
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ...
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glxinfo and steam detecting incorrect video driver (Ubuntu 12.04)
I've asked for help on the Steam discussion boards and on the Steam Github bug page and I was told to ask about this issue on an Ubuntu forum. Here are the links:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/...
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Software emulated OpenGL with higher version than my graphics card supports
I have an Intel GMA 950 chipset in my netbook. I want to learn how to write OpenGL shader programs with this fantastic tutorial and therefore need OpenGL 3.3. Sadly, my graphics card only supports ...
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How to install Mesa from source?
How to install Mesa from source code in Ubuntu 18.04?
I downloaded mesa-18.1.3.tar.xz from here ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/ then extracted it, then in the directory with the sources did the ...
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Ultra low-latency in ubuntu 22.04
I should run a visual experiment project with Matlab or Python in which the time resolution is dramatically important! that's why I shift to Linux and use the low-latency kernel in ubuntu. but I ...
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Building Mesa from git - can not "apt-get build-dep mesa"
I'm trying to follow this guide mesa compiling and installing
But when I get to this step
sudo apt-get build-dep mesa
I get the following output
Reading package lists... Done
E: Unable to find a ...
