Bug#632730: libgles2-mesa: activate i965 pipe in gallium

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Die, 2011-07-05 at 14:05 +0100, Lionel Landwerlin wrote: 
> On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 14:59 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Die, 2011-07-05 at 13:43 +0100, Lionel Landwerlin wrote: 
> > > 
> > > The current gles2 package of mesa does not ship the i965 pipe. Thus on
> > > lastest Intel platform, you end up using the software rasterizer.
> > > 
> > > Could you enable that pipe ?
> > 
> > I'm afraid that wouldn't be much use, as the Gallium i965 driver hasn't
> > seen active development in a long time, and is far from usable.
> 
> Indeed, it just locked my Ironlake...
> 
> Is there any alternative for the gles2 API to be used on such platform ?

I think the classic i965 driver from libgl1-mesa-dri should support
GLES2 via the egl_dri2 EGL driver. You can force that with the
environment variable EGL_DRIVER=egl_dri2 .


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