Updated and Optimized Ubuntu Free Graphics Drivers

[Guest]

Hi, was coming back to Ubuntu (15.10) and upon trying to install mesa-vdpau-drivers, I get a broken depends because nothing is providing libomxil-bellagio0.

[oibaf]

Hi, I uploaded llvm-3.7 and recompiled mesa and libclc with it.
You should be able to get OpenGL 4+ with radeonsi now.

[deri]

Hi, I uploaded llvm-3.7 and recompiled mesa and libclc with it.
You should be able to get OpenGL 4+ with radeonsi now.

I just noticed this too.

glxinfo |grep core
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-040e314 2016-01-08 trusty-oibaf-ppa)
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.10

I tried saint row 4, which required 4 before. And it works and the performance was good on my short try.

[oibaf]

I also added support for Ubuntu 16.04 / xenial.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

I also added support for Ubuntu 16.04 / xenial.

Great! Thanks for that!

[Melcar]

Nice surprise today . Now to play some games.

[Melcar]

Suspend seems to be broken (no surprise, happens every now and then) and I get total system freezes in the Valley benchmark (in the scene with the rocks and the heavy rain).

[Dukenukemx]

How do I get OpenGL 3.3 for R600? Specifically every time I boot the PC.

ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD BARTS (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.7.1)
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-cb51348 2016-01-08 trusty-oibaf-ppa)
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-cb51348 2016-01-08 trusty-oibaf-ppa)
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-cb51348 2016-01-08 trusty-oibaf-ppa)
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

[asdfblah]

How do I get OpenGL 3.3 for R600? Specifically every time I boot the PC.

ATTENTION: default value of option vblank_mode overridden by environment.
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD BARTS (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.7.1)
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-cb51348 2016-01-08 trusty-oibaf-ppa)
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-cb51348 2016-01-08 trusty-oibaf-ppa)
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0-devel (git-cb51348 2016-01-08 trusty-oibaf-ppa)
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

IIRC, the problem here is that R600 still doesn't support OpenGL completely because most R600 GPUs lack 64-bit floating point hardware, so we need to wait for devs to code an "emulation" of these features. I could be wrong, so here's the thread that explains this: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum...-with-opengl-4

BUT, IIUC, you don't actually need this to play games anyway, you can force OpenGL 4.1 like this:

MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.1 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=410 ./application

I could be wrong, though.

[Dukenukemx]

IIRC, the problem here is that R600 still doesn't support OpenGL completely because most R600 GPUs lack 64-bit floating point hardware, so we need to wait for devs to code an "emulation" of these features. I could be wrong, so here's the thread that explains this: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum...-with-opengl-4

BUT, IIUC, you don't actually need this to play games anyway, you can force OpenGL 4.1 like this:

MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.1 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=410 ./application

I could be wrong, though.

I have a 6850 but do I need 4.1 to get 3.3? Also would I put that in "/etc/environment"?