[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm] chrome with Vivante GPU on i.MX6

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> On 2014-03-27 05:11, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I now have X11 running with the Vivante GPU on my i.MX6solo.
>> Or so I thought - now I'm not so sure :-(
>>
>> The X11 server happy reports that it is using the Vivante libraries,
>> but I think there are problems.  In particular, I see this message
>> in the log (complete log attached):
>> [ 53044.383] (EE) AIGLX error: vivante exports no extensions (/usr/lib/dri/vivante_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driDriverExtensions)
>> [ 53044.383] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
>>
>> Then there are these messages which don't make much sense:
>> [ 53044.493] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0
>> [ 53044.495] (II) VIVANTE(0): Setting screen physical size to 211 x 127
>> (my physical screen is 800x480)
>>
>> Finally, when I run Google chrome, I get a slew of EGL related errors:
>> [2136:2136:0327/105115:ERROR:gl_surface_glx.cc(742)] glXChooseFBConfig failed.
>> [2136:2136:0327/105115:ERROR:gpu_info_collector.cc(27)] gfx::GLContext::CreateOffscreenGLSurface failed
>> [2113:2131:0327/105117:ERROR:browser_process_resource_provider.cc(52)] Not implemented reached in task_manager::BrowserProcessResource::BrowserProcessResource()
>> [     1] libGAL: Performing a software resolve!
>> [2136:2136:0327/105117:ERROR:buffer_manager.cc(313)] [.Compositor-0x3b7c34f8]GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_ENUM : glBufferData: <- error from previous GL command
>> [2203:2203:0327/105117:ERROR:gl_surface_glx.cc(742)] glXChooseFBConfig failed.
>> [2203:2203:0327/105117:ERROR:gpu_info_collector.cc(27)] gfx::GLContext::CreateOffscreenGLSurface failed
>> [     1] libGAL: Performing a software resolve!
>> [2203:2203:0327/105117:ERROR:buffer_manager.cc(313)] [.Compositor-0x39e5a998]GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_ENUM : glBufferData: <- error from previous GL command
>> [2214:2214:0327/105117:ERROR:gl_surface_glx.cc(742)] glXChooseFBConfig failed.
>> [2214:2214:0327/105117:ERROR:gpu_info_collector.cc(27)] gfx::GLContext::CreateOffscreenGLSurface failed
>> [     1] libGAL: Performing a software resolve!
>> [2214:2214:0327/105118:ERROR:buffer_manager.cc(313)] [.Compositor-0x3b835a30]GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_ENUM : glBufferData: <- error from previous GL command
>>
>> and the chrome://gpu/ page indicates that hardware acceleration
>> is *not* available.
>>
>> None of these errors are particular to my i.MX6solo platform.
>> I get the same indications when I run on my i.MX6Q SabreLite
>> using the "out of the box" build for Nitrogen6x.
>>
>> What am I missing?  How can I tell if the Vivante GPU is being
>> used?  If not, what need I do to get it going?
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas/pointers
>
> What about this?  IMO, it's truly broken.
>
> Where do I file a bug report for meta-fsl-arm??

Please report it to bugzilla.yoctoproject.org.

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