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    Hi there.
    I'm bloody desperate newbie in graphic programming and I need help. My graphic card support only OpenGL 2.1 and GLSL 1.2 and I need to use some functionality of newer GLSL, so I wanted to use mesa and its software rendering. I tried to set environment variables, change packages, but whatever I did, it throw error

    GLSL 1.30 is not supported. Supported versions are: 1.00 ES, 1.10, and 1.20

    Probably it's some my idiocy, but it's for my university project, deadline in coming and as I said, I'm desperate now
    I use Debian wheezy and its official mesa packages.
    Thanks for any help...

  • #2
    Simple Nvidia GeForce G210 cards only cost around 20? + shipping, whats the big deal to buy a new one? What's your current card?

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    • #3
      Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics, I'm working on my laptop

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      • #4
        I don't think mesa's software rendering supports anything above OpenGL 2.1. Is it possible for you to create a script that runs a program and collects results? That way other people could run it on OpenGL 3.0+ capable hardware for you. When is your deadline?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by archibald View Post
          I don't think mesa's software rendering supports anything above OpenGL 2.1. Is it possible for you to create a script that runs a program and collects results? That way other people could run it on OpenGL 3.0+ capable hardware for you. When is your deadline?
          There's no OGL 3.0 but GLSL 1.3, at least with latest mesa:

          Code:
          $ LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 glxinfo
          [...]
          OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
          OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
          OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.2-devel (git-12c0cce)
          OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
          [...]

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          • #6
            Softpipe supports that already in Mesa 8.0.

            OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
            OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 8.0.3
            OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30

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            • #7
              I want to add a general question:

              How do you choose which driver to use? I compiled mesa with --with-dri-drivers=i915,i965,swrast --with-gallium-drivers=swrast but when I do LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 I get llvmpipe instead of softpipe.
              Code:
              LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 glxinfo | grep OpenGL
              OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
              OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.2, 256 bits)
              OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.2-devel (git-b63b301)
              OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
              OpenGL extensions:
              I thought that maybe DRAW_USE_LLVM=0 would maybe make it not use llvmpipe but it doesn't (it certainly does something, glxgears gets much less fps when draw_use_llvm is set to 0).

              In /etc/xorg/modules/dri I only have dummy_drv_video.so i915_dri.la i915_dri.so i965_dri.la i965_dri.so swrast_dri.la swrast_dri.so.
              So maybe I don't quite understand what softpipe ans swrast exactly is. Is softpipe included in swrast? Why do I get llvmpipe even though LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose shows that /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/swrast_dri.so is used? Is llvmpipe also included in swrast? Configure says " Driver dirs: galahad identity llvmpipe noop rbug softpipe trace" so it should have been built I guess?

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Kano View Post
                Simple Nvidia GeForce G210 cards only cost around 20? + shipping, whats the big deal to buy a new one? What's your current card?
                Any graphics card with DDR3 is a scam...

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                • #9
                  @ChrisXY

                  Use GALLIUM_DRIVER to select between llvmpipe and softpipe.

                  LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 GALLIUM_DRIVER=softpipe glxinfo


                  What I don't know is how to choose between swrast (classic sw renderer) and softpipe, but swrast is pretty dead nowadays.

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                  • #10
                    Thanks, that does the trick:
                    Code:
                    LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 GALLIUM_DRIVER=softpipe glxinfo | grep OpenGL
                    OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
                    OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on softpipe
                    OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.2-devel (git-b63b301)
                    OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
                    I had read this documentation page: http://www.mesa3d.org/envvars.html
                    And this was not on there.

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