Bug#633612: libegl1-mesa: libEGL warning: failed to create DRM screen

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Die, 2011-07-12 at 04:59 +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote: 
> Package: libegl1-mesa
> Version: 7.10.3-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> I had a real problem tryinh to run the OpenVG demos included in the
> mesa-demos-8.0.1.tar.bz2 archive - header files missing!
> 
> I've attached the ones I was able to piece together from looking at the code
> and
> the compiler output.
> Apologies in advance if they're not totally correct, but they do the job.
> 
> EGL_PLATFORM="x11" ./lion_x11
> libEGL warning: failed to create DRM screen
> libEGL warning: use software fallback
> EGL_VERSION = 1.4 (Gallium)
> 
> Is hardware OpenVg completely borked with Intel graphics drivers?

I'm afraid so; OpenVG is only available for Gallium drivers, so for now
the only hope would be for older chipsets supported by the i915g driver.


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