Updated and Optimized Ubuntu Free Graphics Drivers

[DanaG]

It should be installed, you can check with:

cd /usr/lib/
find -name libvulkan_virtio.so

Looks like I don't have a PPA version of mesa-vulkan-drivers -- I'm on Lunar, and the PPA only has up to Jammy.
I'm trying just compiling mesa git myself, and if that doesn't work, I'll redo the container with Jammy.

$ apt-cache policy mesa-vulkan-drivers
mesa-vulkan-drivers:
Installed: 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~23.04.1
Candidate: 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~23.04.1
Version table:
*** 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~23.04.1 500
500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports lunar-updates/main arm64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
23.0.2-1ubuntu1 500
500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports lunar/main arm64 Packages
21.2.6-1~cros11+1 995
995 https://storage.googleapis.com/cros-packages/118 bullseye/main arm64 Packages​

ls -la /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libvulkan*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 6 2023 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libvulkan.so -> libvulkan.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Feb 6 2023 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libvulkan.so.1 -> libvulkan.so.1.3.239
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 526864 Feb 6 2023 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libvulkan.so.1.3.239
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5253032 Jun 9 02:53 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libvulkan_broadcom.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5648552 Jun 9 02:53 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libvulkan_freedreno.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6831776 Jun 9 02:53 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libvulkan_lvp.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8637152 Jun 9 02:53 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libvulkan_radeon.so​

[oibaf]

I just got a Qualcomm-based Chromebook to play with, and after a bit of hackery to get Ubuntu instead of Debian in the LXC container, I noticed that the aarch64 packages lack the virtio vulkan driver. With an ArchLinux container, I was able to show that the Venus driver works, but I don't want to use ArchLinux.

It should be installed, you can check with:

cd /usr/lib/
find -name libvulkan_virtio.so

[DanaG]

I just got a Qualcomm-based Chromebook to play with, and after a bit of hackery to get Ubuntu instead of Debian in the LXC container, I noticed that the aarch64 packages lack the virtio vulkan driver. With an ArchLinux container, I was able to show that the Venus driver works, but I don't want to use ArchLinux.

[pinguinpc]

oibaf many thanks your ppa works perfect in my case (wine deb packages from winehq (mantic) and compiled with ./configure --enable-archs=i386,x86_64) with xubuntu 24.04 development branch and see nice 24.04 and driver 24

also ffmpeg 6.1 (enable-libmfx are deprecated and now needs put enable-libvpl) works ok too

[oibaf]

Next upload for Ubuntu 22.04/jammy will have rusticl disabled (see here for some more info).

[oibaf]

eitch : you should report it here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues

nir2142 : I don't plan a stable mesa PPA

[nir2142]

hello oibaf

just want to ask,

if i want to stay with 23.3 channel what is the best way?

do you have a ppa for this? or do you know another ppa ?



can i suggest you something?
it would be great if you have 2 channel
1) ppa-mesa-stable for the latest stable mesa release
2) ppa-mesa-next for the next mesa release

and when the ppa-mesa-stable will update to the next version than also the ppa-mesa-next will update to the next version
i hope you don't kill me for suggesting it

[eitch]

After upgrading to 24.x i've been having core dumps and segfaults in Steam and other apps. And i wasn't able to see libglx info, it was said something about not finding the driver and some variables. Does anyone else know of this? Are there some packages missing, which haven't been updated yet?

[oibaf]

[ATTACH]n1417407[/ATTACH]

Yup, that IS much cleaner, thanks for the pointer. I also tweaked it to have a WSL_ARCHS define similar to how RUSTICL_ARCHS is used when the arch list is referenced multiple times

Thanks, it looks good (edit: maybe just add a space after the comment at

#Copy spirv2dxil...

), I applied it to the PPA, building now. It would be nice if you could also submit it to Debian (my packages are based on the official Ubuntu ones, which are themselves based on the Debian ones), so that:

• standard Debian / Ubuntu users could also benefit from it;
• could eventually get some improvements from Debian / Ubuntu packagers;
• it would ease to manage my PPA (less differences, so easier to sync when I do it from time to time).

The Debian package source is available here:

https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/mesa

The git repo is here:

https://salsa.debian.org/xorg-team/lib/mesa

Your patch should just need minor modification for the Debian package.

[Entropy512]

Thanks, I had a look at it, I think a better approach (at least, something similar to what it is already done) would be something like the install of rusticl.icd, starting at line number 285 in original rules file. Can you have a look doing it this way?

build_dozen_v2.patch.txt

Yup, that IS much cleaner, thanks for the pointer. I also tweaked it to have a WSL_ARCHS define similar to how RUSTICL_ARCHS is used when the arch list is referenced multiple times