On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:31 PM, HaiTao Feng <haitao.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Gallium Vmwgfx Developers, > > Could I know the current status of the gallium vmwgfx driver? Is it able to > run Linux guest with OpenGL accelertion?
Yes, I have tested it very recently on Ubuntu 11.10, there are some bugs especially with Unity, but Compiz run just fine. > > I want to try a Linux guest with gallium vmwgfx driver in Vmware player, > could you give me some instructions on how to build the kernel and mesa > source code? The biggest hurdle is setting up the new X driver and getting the kernel driver sorted. There is some generic build information http://mesa3d.org/install.html but I would recommend building mesa with this scons command: $ scons dri-vmwgfx xorg-vmwgfx You also need to have a kernel with the vmwgfx driver enabled or build the standalone driver you can get it from here: git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/mesa/vmwgfx then just build that with make, provided you have the kernel headers for that distribution installed. $ make you should be able to insert the new driver into the kernel with insmod now, recommended that you stop X before doing this and do this from the terminal. $ sudo insmod vmwgfx.ko enable_fbdev=1 If you have gotten this far you need to install vmwgfx_drv.so, that you built in the mesa build above, into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ you should now be able to start x again and it will use the new driver automatically. And finally you need to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (you will probably need to create it first) and add the following lines Section "Device" Identifier "SVGA Graphics Device" Driver "vmware" Option "3DAccel" "TRUE" EndSection And then restart X again and you should have 3D enabled. I hope this helps. Cheers Jakob. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
