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The other night I tried a fresh Ubuntu MATE 16.04 install onto a new SSD. I've found previously that the padoka-ppa drivers work well for 3D Acceleration with VMware Workstation installed running a Windows 7 guest for gaming, as long as you used driconf and on the Image Quality tab, set Enable S3TC Texture compression even if software support is not available to Yes.
In the past, the following worked - these are from my notes which worked fine a number of times:
Install Ubuntu MATE 16.04 - ticking the Download Updates while installing and Install third-party software options
Log in to the fresh install and do the following:
In Software & Updates - Other Software, tick Canoical Partners
From a terminal run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppaaulo-miguel-dias/mesa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Then reboot
From a terminal run:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install driconf
Then go to System - Preferences - Hardware - 3D Acceleration to open the driconf panel
On the Image Quality tab, set Enable S3TC Texture compression even if software support is not available to Yes
Then reboot.
The problem is, when I run driconf, on the Image tab, there is no Enable S3TC Texture compression option at all. There are now very few options and most of them have a 0 or 1 setting.
This seems very strange - the version of driconf is still 0.91 - several years old, so it is not as if the software has been updated.
Trying to run a VMware Workstation Windows 7 virtual machine with 3D acceleration seems to result in VMware saying that there is no acceleration available from the host. This worked fine before when I could change the setting in driconf.
When I run VMware form the terminal, I see:
neil@ubuntu:~$ force_s3tc_enable=true /usr/bin/vmware %U
Fail to open executable: No such file or directory
But VMware starts anyway and still complaints about a lack of 3D acceleration.
Is there another way to enable S3TC without driconf so that it is set so that when the machine boots up and I am logged in that it is automatically enabled? Or is there a way to fix driconf to show the Enable S3TC Texture compression as it used to?
There's nothing in the logs in /var/log/vmware/host-d.log pointing to any 3D issues.
The output of glxinfo | grep string is:
neil@ubuntu:/var/log/vmware$ glxinfo | grep string
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon (TM) R9 380 Series (TONGA / DRM 3.9.0 / 4.10.0-42-generic, LLVM 6.0.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 17.4.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 17.4.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 17.4.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
Any help is much appreciated, as I am rather stumped. given that this is a completely clean install, using steps that worked perfectly in the past.
Many thanks,
Neil
The other night I tried a fresh Ubuntu MATE 16.04 install onto a new SSD. I've found previously that the padoka-ppa drivers work well for 3D Acceleration with VMware Workstation installed running a Windows 7 guest for gaming, as long as you used driconf and on the Image Quality tab, set Enable S3TC Texture compression even if software support is not available to Yes.
In the past, the following worked - these are from my notes which worked fine a number of times:
Install Ubuntu MATE 16.04 - ticking the Download Updates while installing and Install third-party software options
Log in to the fresh install and do the following:
In Software & Updates - Other Software, tick Canoical Partners
From a terminal run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppaaulo-miguel-dias/mesa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Then reboot
From a terminal run:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install driconf
Then go to System - Preferences - Hardware - 3D Acceleration to open the driconf panel
On the Image Quality tab, set Enable S3TC Texture compression even if software support is not available to Yes
Then reboot.
The problem is, when I run driconf, on the Image tab, there is no Enable S3TC Texture compression option at all. There are now very few options and most of them have a 0 or 1 setting.
This seems very strange - the version of driconf is still 0.91 - several years old, so it is not as if the software has been updated.
Trying to run a VMware Workstation Windows 7 virtual machine with 3D acceleration seems to result in VMware saying that there is no acceleration available from the host. This worked fine before when I could change the setting in driconf.
When I run VMware form the terminal, I see:
neil@ubuntu:~$ force_s3tc_enable=true /usr/bin/vmware %U
Fail to open executable: No such file or directory
But VMware starts anyway and still complaints about a lack of 3D acceleration.
Is there another way to enable S3TC without driconf so that it is set so that when the machine boots up and I am logged in that it is automatically enabled? Or is there a way to fix driconf to show the Enable S3TC Texture compression as it used to?
There's nothing in the logs in /var/log/vmware/host-d.log pointing to any 3D issues.
The output of glxinfo | grep string is:
neil@ubuntu:/var/log/vmware$ glxinfo | grep string
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon (TM) R9 380 Series (TONGA / DRM 3.9.0 / 4.10.0-42-generic, LLVM 6.0.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 17.4.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 17.4.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 17.4.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
Any help is much appreciated, as I am rather stumped. given that this is a completely clean install, using steps that worked perfectly in the past.
Many thanks,
Neil