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Topic: Mesa GL

I've upgraded Ubuntu to v9.04 (oops!) and the new MesaGL drivers have been added, I new this was coming as I test compiled them a while back but they ran too slow. The problem now is that they still run too slow! This has made Tee Worlds unplayable, which I see as a major issue!

Can this be circumvented in TW, I intend to try compiling Mesa - new stuff, hopefully this will fix it.
The problem seems to be that my Intel graphics card is not too well supported (although it should be) and the DRI module of Mesa goes into 'indirect' mode, which is slow and uses all of the CPU doing it!

Any help, someone with the same problem?

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2 Reply by DeRK

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Re: Mesa GL

seems u have ati... yes?

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DeRK wrote:

seems u have ati... yes?

^- fail.

Random Tee wrote:

The problem seems to be that my Intel graphics card is not too well supported

@Random Tee: Since you said you "upgraded to 9.04", did it work on this machine on previous versions? oO

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4 Reply by DeRK (edited by DeRK 2009-05-02 09:59:10)

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fail
epic fail*
ubuntu has new xorg server 1.6.0, mb it's cuz it... if not then idk

aaah and because of this bugs and problems I hate ubuntu lol

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Random Tee - have you tried installing proprietary intel drivers? Try doing it, Ubuntu sux at driver packages, although in 9.04 I was astonished by the availability of latest nvidia drivers through the repositories.

And yeah, Direct Rendering is often unusable when you have older and later drivers installed at once. See if you have the older drivers still installed, and if yes, uninstall them. It may work.

And also, try turning off compiz if you have it on.

When I had a problem like you, I tried all suggestions and nothing worked. In the end I just made a clean install and everything worked just fine. My home directory is mounted as a separate partition, so I didn't lose anything. It took me less than an hour to install the programs I used to have.

You can also check out the ubuntu support forums and google. big_smile They may be of better use than this forum.

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Re: Mesa GL

Thanks for all the replies!

TW worked on 8.10 fine before the upgrade.
I traced the problem to Mesa 7.3/7.4 which has been added in 9.04, it uses indirect rendering which seems to mean it refuses to use the graphics card!
I found the old Mesa 7.2 and compiled it, after uninstalling 7.4 and then deleting the library (.so) files in /usr/include manually. This seems to work as TW now plays just as it used to, the only problem is that things like GLSL and some other advanced functions fail to work (it causes a crash) but I can live with this. smile

As far as I can tell there aren't any proprietary drivers for Intel cards, unlike Nvidia.

Hopefully Mesa will be fixed soon, but for now the only thing that would fix everything at once (for me at least) is buying a new card, which is annoying. sad

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