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i92guboj
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 Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:26 am Post subject: kwin 4.7 and Opengl ES |
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It seems that kwin 4.7 brings -finally- Opengl ES to our desktops. But after I compiled kwin with USE="-opengl gles" (you can't have both enabled) compositing stops working and I can't re-enable it (kwin crashes and disables it automatically).
My driver is radeon, and mesa is compiled with USE=gles as well. I use the gallium mesa driver as seen here:
| Code: | 64bit i915 (Intel 915, 945)
64bit i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x)
64bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500)
[1] gallium *
64bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands)
[1] gallium *
64bit sw (Software renderer)
[1] gallium *
32bit i915 (Intel 915, 945)
[1] classic *
[2] gallium
32bit i965 (Intel 965, G/Q3x, G/Q4x)
[1] classic *
[2] gallium
32bit r300 (Radeon R300-R500)
[1] classic
[2] gallium *
32bit r600 (Radeon R600-R700, Evergreen, Northern Islands)
[1] classic
[2] gallium *
32bit sw (Software renderer)
[1] classic
[2] gallium *
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So, has anyone tried to enable gles in kwin with the radeon driver? Anyone succeeded? |
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ppurka
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:16 pm Post subject: Re: kwin 4.7 and Opengl ES |
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| i92guboj wrote: | | It seems that kwin 4.7 brings -finally- Opengl ES to our desktops. |
I thought opengles is not for desktops but for mobiles. See wikipedia 
In case, it can be used for desktops too, it means that there are probably issues with the radeon driver you have.
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Dorsai!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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I have the same problem with the latest (and previous) nvidia-drivers. I had to go back to opengl.
OpenGLES is not only for mobiles. It is recommended by upstream (bzw. Martin Gräßlin) since it should be faster and more bug free. |
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i92guboj
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:22 pm Post subject: Re: kwin 4.7 and Opengl ES |
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| ppurka wrote: | | i92guboj wrote: | | It seems that kwin 4.7 brings -finally- Opengl ES to our desktops. |
I thought opengles is not for desktops but for mobiles. See wikipedia
In case, it can be used for desktops too, it means that there are probably issues with the radeon driver you have. |
Certainly not all of this is clear to me. I think it's the recommended opengl engine for kwin right now, and it's where most of of the future kwin development will take place, relegating all the rest of backends to a secondary place. In any case, we have a bug here of some kind. If this is to work on desktop, then the bug is in radeon, mesa, kwin or all of them. If not, then the bug is in the ebuilds, which should mask the gles use flag for those architectures where gles is not going to work. In any case, the mesa ebuild has had this flag for some time now, so I don't know what to think. That's why I am asking in the forum before blindingly reporting bugs in b.g.o. or upstream. |
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Dorsai!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Any solution for this yet?
Has anyone a working kwin gles setup? |
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NismoC32
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| No luck with "gles" here using a ASUS NVidia GTX 465 card with the binary blob 275.21 (OpenGL/ES v4.1.0) |
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chithanh
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| The crash is due to bug 376981. Upgrade to mesa-7.11_rc4, it is fixed there. |
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albright
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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does anyone know if gles works with intel GM965/GL960
(it did NOT work with older mesa)
and just how much faster/smoother/better is it than plain old gl
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abulak
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:30 am Post subject: |
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I have gentoo-sources-3.0;
kwin-4.7 and mesa-7.11-rc4
kwin will not run with USE="gles -opengl"
during startup it says:
| Code: | OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on NV4E
OpenGL version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 7.11-rc4
OpenGL shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16
Driver: Nouveau
GPU class: NV40/G70
OpenGL version: 2.0
GLSL version: 1.0.16
Mesa version: 7.11
X server version: 1.10.3
Linux kernel version: 3.0
Direct rendering: yes
Requires strict binding: yes
GLSL shaders: limited
Texture NPOT support: yes
kwin(20091): Shaders are not supported
kwin(20091): Shaders not valid, ES compositing not possible
kwin(20091): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled |
It is old Geforce Go 6150 which is definitely capable of OpenGL-2.0...
I guess it is too old to be actively supported by nouveau developers... |
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i92guboj
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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@abulak, as far as I know nouveau doesn't even have a proper mesa hardware driver, check "eselect mesa list". I could be wrong, admittedly I never used it myself.
@allbright, I don't notice any improvement (or detriment) in performance. I am not too intensive in effects though. I only use a slight transparency in the window decos and while moving windows around. Effects are not 100% smooth (they never were) with my radeon card (using the open radeon driver). Anyway, that was to be expected. If every time an improvement is announced it was always true, then kwin would run a a million thousands percent of its original speed.  |
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Yamakuzure
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| albright wrote: | does anyone know if gles works with intel GM965/GL960
(it did NOT work with older mesa)
and just how much faster/smoother/better is it than plain old gl |
As far as I can see you need Gallium3D support for OpenGL-ES to work. On my Intel HD (i965) it does not work, I tried yesterday.
On http://www.x.org/wiki/GalliumStatus The status for "Mesa" and "DRI" are set to "Work in Progress" for i965.
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Yamakuzure
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:05 am Post subject: |
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Okay, this is strange. I set mesa to "-gallium" and activated egl and gles where possible. Now portage moans: | Code: | The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:
#required by media-libs/evas-9999[gles], required by media-libs/edje-9999, required by x11-plugins/e_modules-forecasts-9999, required by x11-plugins/e_modules-9999, required by @selected, required by @world (argument)
=media-libs/mesa-7.11 gallium
#required by dev-python/PyQt4-4.8.4[opengl], required by kde-base/marble-4.7.0-r1[python], required by kde-base/kdeedu-meta-4.7.0, required by kde-base/kde-meta-4.7.0, required by @selected, required by @world (argument)
>=x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.7.3 -egl |
So while mesa and kwin are perfectly happy with +gles and -gallium, evas wants it.
I changed evas to "-gles" and PyQt4 to "-opengl" and portage is happy with this combination. Now I can test whether I have understood the OpenGL ES documentation on the mesa website correctly. If I did, then it won't work out this way.
Edit 1: Hmmm... mesa fails in configure phase with "-gallium" and "openvg". The ebuild should really know, so I'll file a bug report.
Edit 2: HA! Even with Gallium disabled, the gallium drivers are built due to the Usage of EGL which is mandatory for OpenGL ES.
Edit 3: Finally tested it. kwin-4.7.0 is now merged with "-opengl +gles" and mesa-7.11 is merged with "+egl +gles -gallium" and kwin no longer crashes but works with enabled desktop effects on OpenGL backend. "eselect mesa list" still shows the presence of "Gallium", but "classic" is enabled.
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opotonil
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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I am trying to use it with nvidia (private driver) but I get:
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libEGL warning: GLX/DRI2 is not supported
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe
OpenGL version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 7.11
Driver: LLVMpipe
GPU class: Unknown
OpenGL version: 2.0
Mesa version: 7.11
X server version: 1.10.2
Linux kernel version: 2.6.38
Direct rendering: yes
Requires strict binding: yes
GLSL shaders: no
Texture NPOT support: yes
kwin(4946): ""fsrestore1" - conversion of "0,0,0,0" to QRect failed"
kwin(4946): Required extension EGL_KHR_image_pixmap not found, disabling compositing
kwin(4946): Failed to initialize compositing, compositing disabled
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I do not have installed VMware and the system not is a virtual machine, video card is NVIDIA GPU GeForce 8400M GT (G86M) and it is using nvidia-drivers-270.41.19 (I get same result with nvidia-drivers-275.21).
USE flags:
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# emerge -pv mesa kwin
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ~] media-libs/mesa-7.11 USE="egl gallium gbm gles llvm nptl openvg shared-glapi -bindist -classic -debug -motif -pax_kernel -pic (-selinux) -shared-dricore" VIDEO_CARDS="-intel -mach64 -mga -nouveau -r128 -radeon -savage -sis -tdfx -via -vmware" 0 kB
[ebuild R ~] kde-base/kwin-4.7.0 USE="gles xcomposite (-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal) -opengl -xinerama" 0 kB
Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB
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I activated USE flag gbm because in mesa ebuild I can see (bug 376981 posted before):
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--with-egl-platforms=x11$(use gbm && echo ",drm")
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Kollin
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| Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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For me kwin-4.7.1+gles+nvidia-drivers=no desktop effects.. I'm reverting to opengl
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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for what it's worth.
I'm currently running the live ebuilds of mesa from the x11 overlay. I've got USE="gallium gles1 gles2" enabled, and I've got kwin installed using gles instead of opengl. This makes me believe that it's just a question of support in mesa. I've got a Radeon Mobility HD 4200 on my laptop and performance appears to be pretty good actually.
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