Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:26:43 +1000 From: thunder@ahhyes.net To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Enabling accelerated video in the vmware video driver Message-ID: <6cf9dd7abfa991475465c349daefe052@ahhyes.net>
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Hi Guys,
Battling with trying to get video acceleration enabled in this driver...
The driver refuses to enable it during building and I discovered why..
Someone has added a patch into the xf86-video-vmmware port that
deliberately disables 3d support in the driver by messing with the
configure script... I removed this patch and got a bit further:
--- snippet ---
checking whether XSERVER_LIBPCIACCESS is declared... yes
checking for PCIACCESS... yes
checking for LIBDRM... yes
checking for XATRACKER... no
configure: error: Package requirements (xatracker >= 0.4.0) were not
met:
Package xatracker was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xatracker.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'xatracker', required by 'world', not found
--- snippet ---
Looks like it uses pkgconfig to find libraries and is missing xatracker
(for which there is no specific port or package for on freebsd). One
must modify the "graphics/dri" port Makefile and add --enable-xa to the
configure arguments and issue a "make reinstall" to rebuild it, this
allows the building of the xatracker libraries to occur however the
libraries and header files are not included into the final installation
(probably because the creation of the install package does not know
about these extra files), one must install them manually.
I found the relevant xatracker.pc file under
/usr/ports/graphics/dri/work/Mesa-9.1.7/src/gallium/targets/xa-vmwgfx/xatracker.pc,
put it in the right place along with the xa header files under
/usr/local/include. The vmware driver build completes and 3d support is
enabled in the driver itself. But now the plot thickens. There is no DRM
kernel module:
From the Xorg log:
-- snippet --
[104703.219] drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
[104703.219] Failed to change owner or group for file /dev/dri! 2: No
such file or directory
[104703.219] Failed to change owner or group for file /dev/dri/card0! 2:
No such file or directory
[104703.219] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or
directory)
[104703.219] Failed to change owner or group for file /dev/dri/card0! 2:
No such file or directory
[104703.219] drmOpenDevice: open result is -1, (No such file or
directory)
[104703.219] drmOpenDevice: Open failed
[104703.235] [drm] failed to load kernel module "vmwgfx"
[104703.235] (EE) vmware(0): Failed to open drm.
[104703.235] (WW) vmware(0): Disabling 3D support.
[104703.235] (WW) vmware(0): Disabling Render Acceleration.
[104703.235] (WW) vmware(0): Disabling RandR12+ support.
-- snippet --
There's no vmwgfx.ko included with the FreeBSD kernel it seems - A quick
check of /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES shows the following drm options:
# Direct Rendering modules for 3D acceleration.
device drm # DRM core module required by DRM
drivers
device i915drm # Intel i830 through i915
device mach64drm # ATI Rage Pro, Rage Mobility P/M, Rage
XL
device mgadrm # AGP Matrox G200, G400, G450, G550
device r128drm # ATI Rage 128
device radeondrm # ATI Radeon
device savagedrm # S3 Savage3D, Savage4
device sisdrm # SiS 300/305, 540, 630
device tdfxdrm # 3dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 and Banshee
device viadrm # VIA
options DRM_DEBUG # Include debug printfs (slow)
And that's all there is.... The open-vm-tools doesn't build one either:
root@desktop:/usr/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools/work/open-vm-tools-9.4.0-1280544
# find . -name "*.ko"
./modules/freebsd/vmmemctl.ko
./modules/freebsd/vmblock.ko
./modules/freebsd/vmxnet.ko
./modules/freebsd/vmhgfs.ko
The vmwaretools package from vmware doesn't have the kernel module
either.
Is there a happy ending to this??????????????? I think I have hit a dead
end here..
:/
Cheers,
Alex.
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