How to enable gallium llvm software rasterizer in Ubuntu 10.10

[iznogood]

Hi all,

i want to use ubuntu 10.10 with software rendering from gallium. I install the dri experimental package and it installs swrastg_dri under /usr/lib/dri.

I could enable software rendering when i used xorg-edgers by using an environment variable since the gallium drivers where placed in a different path but this does not apply anymore since they are all installed in the same directory.

Is there a way to enable the gallium driver ?

I have an imac with a 7600 nvidia that is fried and only works with the software renderer.

Thanks in advance

[whizse]

LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 usually does the trick. You shouldn't need a different path.

Keep in mind that's most likely the softpipe renderer, which is quite slow. You'll probably want to use llvmpipe instead.

[iznogood]

LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 usually does the trick. You shouldn't need a different path.

Keep in mind that's most likely the softpipe renderer, which is quite slow. You'll probably want to use llvmpipe instead.

Ok i was not very clear on what i wrote. I already use the software renderer from mesa because the 3d chip on the nvidia card is destroyed and the nouveau driver can not initialize it. But i would like to use the llvmpipe. How can i configure the system to use that ?

Ideally i would like to be able to switch between these renderers on demand (change a parameter and restart X)

[whizse]

There's no need to restart X - you'll only need to set an environment variable.

I don't really know if llvmpipe is packaged in Ubuntu, but if not, it's easy to build. Just follow the instructions in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes...lvmpipe/README

[iznogood]

There's no need to restart X - you'll only need to set an environment variable.

I don't really know if llvmpipe is packaged in Ubuntu, but if not, it's easy to build. Just follow the instructions in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes...lvmpipe/README

Unless gallium has 2 software rasterizers (which i do not know for sure) then swrastg_dri.so is the llvmpipe. It is installed using the experimental dri package, but i do not know how to select it.

[curaga]

It does, softpipe and llvmpipe.

[crispy]

How is llvmpipe running with compiz these days? im on an old sis card and moving windows around looks absolutely horrible, so maybe compiz could make it look nice if I could just start it (no glx )

[crispy]

Actually I got kwin working with the xorg-edgers repo. I can drag windows around nice and smoothly compared to when using metacity (need I mention that kablammo swhoosh special effects were no that smooth?).

Since kwin can work and actually do effects etc. there should be no reason why compiz should have a problem running other than itself refusing to run? It says it detects a software render but glxinfo has no mention of that, and in fact says direct rendering is working. Any ideas?