Ubuntu
mesa package

Please build the vmwgfx driver

Bug #603599 reported by James Willcox
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
mesa (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Chris Halse Rogers
Precise
Fix Released
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

The Mesa in Lucid contains the 3d driver for VMware, vmwgfx, but it is not built by default. It works pretty well here (runs compiz nicely, etc), could you please build/package it?

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Hi James,

        Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

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tags: added: needs-xorglog
tags: added: needs-lspci-vvnn
Changed in mesa (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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James Willcox (jwillcox) wrote :

Sorry, what? Why do you need xorg logs and lspci output?

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Robert Hooker (sarvatt) wrote :

This is some ways off from being included in ubuntu/debian but it will be there eventually. At the moment it requires X dev packages to build and X requires mesa to build which creates a nasty dependency loop. I have been building it in xorg-edgers (in the libgl1-mesa-dri-gallium package) for some time though.

https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

Changed in mesa (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Darik Horn (dajhorn) wrote :

The vmwgfx driver was disabled in Maverick per Bug #606139, and CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX is currently disabled in the Natty kernel.

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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote :

Bug 698009 is for the kernel side of this.

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

RAOF - was vmwgfx dropped upstream from mesa? If not, should we consider including it in the build by default? If not, let's close this bug out.

Changed in mesa (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Chris Halse Rogers (raof)
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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote :

I understand that vmwgfx isn't very good in 7.11; I've closed out the oneiric task and opened one for P, where we will want to enable this.

Changed in mesa (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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ibidem (ibid-ag) wrote :

Looking at http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/i386/libgl1-mesa-dri/filelist ,
it seems that this has been fixed in Precise.
This would be "fix committed"

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Yes, fixed in precise.

Changed in mesa (Ubuntu Precise):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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