Package: mesa-utils Version: 6.3.2-2.1 Severity: important
I unfortunately just spent hours of debugging trying to find why I wasn't getting accelerated GL after installing 3D drivers, and having the right /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 and friends. I would have killed for having glxinfo tell me what the problem was until I found out a day later about LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo, which then gave me: gandalf:~$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo name of display: :0.0 libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 8.26.18 fglrx (screen 0) libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so libGL error: dlopen /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed (/usr/X11R6/l ib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or dir ectory) libGL error: unable to find driver: fglrx_dri.so This was due to a packaging bug, which I fixed with a simple symlink in about 30 seconds, but I would really really have liked for glxinfo to tell me that it couldn't open the driver and that's why I was still getting Mesa. Please consider making LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose or equivalent, a default to help out the countless people on the net like me who have spent too much time tracking this problem. I'm adding extra un-needed info so that google indexes it, and that hopefully other people can find this instead of spending the time I spent. With fglrx (fglrx-driver), and xorg 7.0.22, the driver was loading, dri was initializing, but glxinfo would tell me: gandalf:~$ glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect After ln -s /usr/lib /usr/X11R6/lib/modules, it allowed libGL to find /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so which really had been installed in /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so Now, I do get: gandalf:~$ glxinfo | grep -E '(direct|renderer)' direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY FIREGL T2 Pentium 4 (SSE2) (FireGL) (GNU_ICD) Thanks Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: woody APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.6-pmup-desktop-marc1y Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages mesa-utils depends on: di freeglut3 2.4.0-4 OpenGL Utility Toolkit ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries pi libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 6.4.2-1 A free implementation of the OpenG pi libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 6.4.2-1 The OpenGL utility library (GLU) ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System protocol client li mesa-utils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
