Can't run in xsession, runs slow otherwise, Debian 8, "Could not create GL context"

[mikehgentry]

Hello all, hope you are well. I've been out of the Pioneer universe for a while (real life got in the way [ ] ), but hoping to give it another go. I can't get it to run on Debian 8 (strictly Testing / Sid at the moment) inside an already running xsession. Unfortunately we don't have libglut3-dev, we're using freeglut3-dev. Not sure if that's the reason. apt-cache policy freeglut3-devfreeglut3-dev: Installed: 2.8.1-2 Candidate: 2.8.1-2 Version table: *** 2.8.1-2 0 990 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/[/url] testing/main amd64 Packages 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/[/url] unstable/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status I tried building from git, and using the latest build from the website. This is what I get: ./pioneerver 20141231 (50cdfd1) on: Linux System Name: LinuxHost Name: stirfryRelease(Kernel) Version: 3.16.0-4-amd64Kernel Build Timestamp: #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt2-1 (2014-12-08)Machine Arch: x86_64Domain Name: (none) SDL Version 2.0.3Failed to set video mode. (Couldn't find matching GLX visual). Re-trying without multisampling.Failed to set video mode. (Could not create GL context). Re-trying with 16-bit depth bufferFailed to set video mode. (Couldn't find matching GLX visual). Re-trying with 16-bit depth buffer and no multisamplingerror: Failed to set video mode: Could not create GL context I deleted my ~/.pioneer folder, and it doesn't create logs when I try to run it like this. It's Intel integrated graphics, and it used to work OK a year or so ago (a Thinkpad X201-T). Glxgears and suchlike run fine. lspci... 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) If I switch to another virtual console, I can run it with xinit ./pioneer -- :1 but it runs so slowly as to be unplayable - something like 1 - 2 frames / sec. It creates this opengl.txt cat opengl.txt OpenGL version 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.3.2, running on VMware, Inc. Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits)Available extensions:Shading language version: 3.30 GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility GL_ARB_blend_func_extended GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object GL_ARB_compressed_texture_pixel_storage GL_ARB_conditional_render_inverted GL_ARB_copy_buffer GL_ARB_conservative_depth GL_ARB_debug_output GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float GL_ARB_depth_clamp GL_ARB_draw_buffers GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex GL_ARB_draw_indirect GL_ARB_draw_instanced GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport GL_ARB_fragment_shader GL_ARB_framebuffer_object GL_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB GL_ARB_get_program_binary GL_ARB_half_float_pixel GL_ARB_half_float_vertex GL_ARB_instanced_arrays GL_ARB_internalformat_query GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata GL_ARB_map_buffer_alignment GL_ARB_map_buffer_range GL_ARB_multi_bind GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect GL_ARB_occlusion_query2 GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_provoking_vertex GL_ARB_robustness GL_ARB_sampler_objects GL_ARB_seamless_cube_map GL_ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture GL_ARB_separate_shader_objects GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding GL_ARB_shader_objects GL_ARB_shader_texture_lod GL_ARB_shading_language_packing GL_ARB_shading_language_420pack GL_ARB_stencil_texturing GL_ARB_sync GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object GL_ARB_texture_buffer_object_rgb32 GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range GL_ARB_texture_compression_rgtc GL_ARB_texture_float GL_ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge GL_ARB_texture_multisample GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two GL_ARB_texture_query_levels GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_texture_rgb10_a2ui GL_ARB_texture_rg GL_ARB_texture_storage GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample GL_ARB_texture_swizzle GL_ARB_timer_query GL_ARB_transform_feedback2 GL_ARB_transform_feedback3 GL_ARB_transform_feedback_instanced GL_ARB_uniform_buffer_object GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra GL_ARB_vertex_array_object GL_ARB_vertex_attrib_binding GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_ARB_vertex_type_10f_11f_11f_rev GL_ARB_vertex_type_2_10_10_10_rev GL_ARB_viewport_array GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate GL_EXT_draw_buffers2 GL_EXT_draw_instanced GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample_blit_scaled GL_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil GL_EXT_packed_float GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object GL_EXT_provoking_vertex GL_EXT_shader_integer_mix GL_EXT_texture_array GL_EXT_texture_compression_dxt1 GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt3 GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt5 GL_EXT_texture_compression_latc GL_EXT_texture_compression_rgtc GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_integer GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent GL_EXT_texture_snorm GL_EXT_texture_sRGB GL_EXT_texture_sRGB_decode GL_EXT_texture_swizzle GL_EXT_timer_query GL_EXT_transform_feedback GL_EXT_vertex_array_bgra GL_OES_EGL_image GL_OES_read_format GL_KHR_debug GL_AMD_conservative_depth GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend GL_AMD_seamless_cubemap_per_texture GL_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax GL_ATI_blend_equation_separate GL_ATI_texture_compression_3dc GL_ATI_texture_float GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_IBM_multimode_draw_arrays GL_MESA_pack_invert GL_MESA_texture_signed_rgba GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture GL_NV_conditional_render GL_NV_depth_clamp GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil GL_S3_s3tc Implementation Limits:GL_MAX_COMBINED_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS = 48GL_MAX_CUBE_MAP_TEXTURE_SIZE = 8192GL_MAX_DRAW_BUFFERS = 8GL_MAX_ELEMENTS_INDICES = 3000GL_MAX_ELEMENTS_VERTICES = 3000GL_MAX_FRAGMENT_UNIFORM_COMPONENTS = 16384GL_MAX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS = 16GL_MAX_TEXTURE_LOD_BIAS = 16GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 8192GL_MAX_VERTEX_ATTRIBS = 16GL_MAX_VERTEX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS = 16GL_MAX_VERTEX_UNIFORM_COMPONENTS = 16384GL_NUM_COMPRESSED_TEXTURE_FORMATS = 3GL_SAMPLE_BUFFERS = 0GL_SAMPLES = 0GL_ALIASED_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE = 1, 255GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS = 8192, 8192GL_SMOOTH_LINE_WIDTH_RANGE = 1, 255GL_SMOOTH_POINT_SIZE_RANGE = 0, 255 Compressed texture formats: 0x83f0 0x83f2 0x83f3 from this config.ini cat config.ini AntiAliasingMode=0BindBottomCamera=Key1073741915,Key1073741902BindCameraRollLeft=Key1073741913BindCameraRollRight=Key1073741915BindCameraRotateDown=Key1073741914,Key1073741905BindCameraRotateLeft=Key1073741916,Key1073741904BindCameraRotateRight=Key1073741918,Key1073741903BindCameraRotateUp=Key1073741920,Key1073741906BindDecreaseScanRange=Key91BindDecreaseSpeed=Key1073742053BindFireLaser=Key32BindFireMissile=Key109BindFrontCamera=Key1073741920,Key1073741906BindIncreaseScanRange=Key93BindIncreaseSpeed=Key13BindKillRot=Key112BindLeftCamera=Key1073741916,Key1073741904BindMapLockHyperspaceTarget=Key32BindMapStartSearch=Key47,Key1073741908BindMapToggleInfoPanel=Key9BindMapToggleSelectionFollowView=Key13,Key1073741912BindMapViewReset=Key114BindMapViewRotateDown=Key115BindMapViewRotateLeft=Key97BindMapViewRotateRight=Key100BindMapViewRotateUp=Key119BindMapViewShiftBackward=Key1073741902BindMapViewShiftDown=Key1073741905BindMapViewShiftForward=Key1073741899BindMapViewShiftLeft=Key1073741904BindMapViewShiftRight=Key1073741903BindMapViewShiftUp=Key1073741906BindMapWarpToCurrent=Key99BindMapWarpToHyperspaceTarget=Key104BindMapWarpToSelection=Key103BindPitchDown=Key119BindPitchUp=Key115BindRearCamera=Key1073741914,Key1073741905BindResetCamera=Key1073741898BindRightCamera=Key1073741918,Key1073741903BindRollLeft=Key113BindRollRight=Key101BindTargetObject=Key116BindThrustBackwards=Key107BindThrustDown=Key111BindThrustForward=Key105BindThrustLeft=Key106BindThrustLowPower=Key1073742049BindThrustRight=Key108BindThrustUp=Key117BindToggleHudMode=Key9BindToggleLuaConsole=Key96BindToggleRotationDamping=Key114BindToggleScanMode=Key92BindTopCamera=Key1073741921,Key1073741899BindViewZoomIn=Key1073741911,Key61BindViewZoomOut=Key1073741910,Key45BindYawLeft=Key97BindYawRight=Key100CompactScanner=1DefaultLowThrustPower=0.25DetailCities=1DetailPlanets=1DisableEclipse=0DisableSound=0DisplayNavTunnel=0EnableCockpit=0EnableGLDebug=0EnableJoystick=1FOVVertical=65HudTrails=0InvertMouseY=0JoystickDeadzone=0.2Lang=enMasterMuted=0MasterVolume=0.8MaxPhysicsCyclesPerRender=4MusicMuted=0MusicVolume=0.8RedirectStdio=0ScrHeight=768ScrWidth=1024SectorViewXRotation=-10.0SectorViewZRotation=0SectorViewZoom=2.0SfxMuted=0SfxVolume=0.8SpeedLines=0StartFullscreen=1UseTextureCompression=1VSync=0WorkerThreads=0 Any suggestions? It's not great hardware, but I was hoping I could still just about play...Thanks.

[impaktor]

Hi! I also have a Thinkpad X201, Intel graphics, and we need to be on 20141118 version for now.Please see the FAQ for further details:<a href="""Pioneer_.28pre_2014-11-19.29_used_to_work.[/url]

[laarmen]

Impaktor, don't give false hope. We're not likely to go back to an OpenGL lesser than 3, so this chip is doomed, unless using llvmpipe, which, as you showed, isn't very efficient (but is useful for us developers)

[impaktor]

If you're referring to the "for now"-part, I just threw that in since I don't know what the exact OpenGL version x201 supports. If it's 3.1 then it should work: #3280. If it's less than 3.1, it will not.

[laarmen]

If it's the same laptop you made me look into a few weeks ago, it was something like 2.1.

[mikehgentry]

Thanks for the info (and apologies for not checking the FAQ!)I've read claims elsewhere that this chip (which I think is known as an Intel GMA HD, but I'm not really sure) can support OpenGL 3.0 on Windows, so perhaps some version of 3 will end up in the Linux drivers one day. I tried upgrading xserver-xorg-video-intel to Debian Experimental, but that didn't get me any further. It does run with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 ./pioneer, but again too slowly to be playable.The older version linked in the FAQ runs fine, so I suppose I'll play that for a while and keep my fingers crossed for a new driver (or see who cracks first - you porting Pioneer to Android, or me buying a new laptop )Cheers.

[laarmen]

LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE runs it using llvmpipe, which is software rendering not using the Intel chip. If your chip is an Intel GMA, it is either OpenGL 2.1 or a PowerVR chip, which would mean you would be out of luck as those don't have any Linux driver, at all. Sorry!

[mikehgentry]

No worries - I didn't buy this thing for hardcore gaming ;)Good luck with the project - I'll definitely come back up to master when I can, hopefully have another bash at making some models (I really like what I've seen so far of the graphical direction it's taking).