Hi Jakob, Thank you very much for your reply!
I have tried your method and other method from VMware community http://communities.vmware.com/message/1544516 to build vmwgfx in Ununtu 11.04. I have found that: I could build vmwgfx and glxinfo shows "Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE" on Windows 7 by: 1) Build the kernel with "CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX=m" (source is from "apt-get source linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic", .config from /boot/config-2.6.38-8-generic) 2) Build the drm by configuring "--enable-vmwgfx-experimental-api" 3) Build the mesa by configuring "--enable-gallium-svga" 4) Manually modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf to set 3DAccel "True" glxgears works, while gnome-panel does not show up and there are other drawing errors in the screen. On Linux, it seems that 3D acceleration is disabled in VMWare Player. By using the "insmod ./vmwgfx.ko enable_fbdev=1", I did not get SVGA3D enabled, glxinfo still shows "Software Rasterizer", while vmwgfx_dri is loaded seen in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. It seems I need to read the source codes to understand why vmwgfx_dri.so is loaded while glxinfo still shows up "Software Rasterizer". Do you have any recommendation to understand the codes faster? Thanks -Haitao On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:10:03AM +0800, Jakob Bornecrantz wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
