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Can't get OpenGL to work on Radeon free drivers (Jessie)

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gradinaruvasile
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Re: Can't get OpenGL to work on Radeon free drivers (Jessie)

#21 Post by gradinaruvasile »

Glad it works.

Now, if someone does this on 64 bit and wants to use 32 bit applications (Wine, Steam or those precompiled 32 bit only Linux games),

YOU WILL NEED TO DO THE ABOVE FOR 32 BIT MESA TOO (just mesa)!

Which is another joyride. I would suggest creating a 32 bit chroot

https://wiki.debian.org/chroot

and install all the prerequisites there and compile the 32 bit stuff then take the .deb and install on the actual system.
My 32 bit mesa build scrip (removed some custom lines so test it):

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#!/bin/bash
./autogen.sh --sysconfdir=/etc --prefix=/usr \
--disable-64-bit --enable-32-bit \
--libdir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu --enable-debug \
--enable-texture-float \
--with-gallium-drivers=r600,swrast,radeonsi \
--with-dri-drivers="" \
--enable-vdpau \
--enable-egl --enable-gles1 --enable-gles2 \
--enable-glx-tls \
--with-egl-platforms=x11,drm \
--enable-gbm \
--enable-gallium-egl \
--enable-gallium-osmesa \
--with-osmesa-bits=32 \
--disable-dri3 \
--disable-opencl \
--with-llvm-shared-libs \
--disable-r600-llvm-compiler \
--enable-llvm-shared-libs \
--enable-shared-glapi

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Re: Can't get OpenGL to work on Radeon free drivers (Jessie)

#22 Post by mashen »

This really should be something included in the Debian repos. Hopefully it is in the future, drivers aren't mature at all yet.
I had my desktop crash with effects enabled after a reboot. I don't know why, it worked the first time.
I guess I will go back to proprietary drivers until the free ones are mature enough.

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Re: Can't get OpenGL to work on Radeon free drivers (Jessie)

#23 Post by gradinaruvasile »

I didnt have any issues since kernel 3.12 with the free drivers (dpm was introduced in the kernel 3.11 driver).
BTW try with dpm enabled (radeon.dpm=1 added to the kernel command line).

But i use the r600 driver that is more mature than radeonsi. And i use xfce with no desktop effects (although i used compton for a while and worked withouth a hitch). So YMMV...

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