Re: Need help proving I am using POLARIS10 drivers and upgrading OpenGL to 4.5
Oflameo <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 16:30 +0200, Benjamin Bellec wrote: > Hi, > > I checked the github ticket. > > Your dmesg output shows indeed you run on a RX 470 GPU, but the > driver used is LLVMPIPE, a software-based OpenGL renderer. So the > amdgpu driver (which enable hardware acceleration of your RX470) is > NOT used. > > You are confused with VMWare because VMWare is labeled as the vendor > of the LLVMPIPE driver (I don't remember the story, but I guess > VMWare people was the creator of this LLVMPIPE driver in Mesa, hence > the vendor name in the driver information). > > > > My RX470 should support OpenGL 4.5. my glxinfo says it only > supports OpenGL 3.0 > Be careful, glxinfo output 2 OpenGL version : the "Core profile" and > the "Compatibility profile" (also called Forward Compatible). > The Compatibility Profile is stuck OpenGL 3.0 because Mesa do not > support more than that. > But, if you used the amdgpu driver, you should indeed see OpenGL 4.5 > for the Core profile version. > That said, if you use LLVMPIPE, I don't know what if the max OpenGL > core version. > > Regards. > How do I change the Driver? How do I load my newer Mesa from /opt/mesa? _______________________________________________ mesa-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-users