[email protected] wrote: > Dear all, > > sorry for a newbie's question. I have installed the openchrome driver for my > VIA Unichrome 3D (P4M890 chipset) graphics card on a Xubuntu 7.10 system. > However, hardware acceleration does not work, and any graphics application > consumes a lot of CPU power. > > When I run glxinfo in verbose mode, it says > > libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.0.0 unichrome (screen 0) > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/unichrome_dri.so > libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib/dri/unichrome_dri.so failed > (/usr/lib/dri/unichrome_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file > or directory) > libGL error: unable to load driver: unichrome_dri.so > name of display: :0.0 > display: :0 screen: 0 > direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting > LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose) > ... > > A similar thing is reported in /var/log/Xorg.0.log: > > (II) CHROME(0): direct rendering enabled > ... > (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/unichrome_dri.so failed > (/usr/lib/dri/unichrome_dri.so: cannot open sh > ared object file: No such file or directory) > (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering > > Well it is pretty obvious. It tries to load /usr/lib/dri/unichrome_dri.so, > which does not exist, and then falls back to software rendering. But how do I > tell it to use a different driver library instead? And what library? (And why > didn't it work from the start?) > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Best regards > Tom > You're missing the mesa package. It's named libgl1-mesa-dri in Ubuntu.
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