3D Acceleration fails in Linux guests

[Technologov]

3D Acceleration fails to accelerate many things -- glxgears, Compiz and KDE4 composition desktop.

Host: Windows XP, Intel Core 2 Q6600, ATI Radeon HD 3850, VBox 3.2.8

Guest: openSUSE 11.3 x64

Other Affected Guests: openSUSE 11.1/11.2/11.3, Fedora 12, RHEL6 (BETA1) (both 32 & 64bit)

1. openSUSE/KDE3: Running "glxgears" on openSUSE guests makes them run at 250-500 fps, which is a "software rendering" performance.

2. openSUSE/KDE4: I have tried to activate KDE4 kwin desktop compositing, but this failed, resetting to 2D mode. How to debug?

3. Red Hat/GNOME: Tried to activate Compiz from GNOME menu, but this failed, resetting to 2D mode. How to debug?

-Technologov, 29.9.2010.

[Technologov]

VBox Log

[Technologov]

glxinfo.txt from openSUSE 11.3 x64 guest

[Technologov]

According to Michael, KDE4 kwin cannot work, because VBox DRI OpenGL is incomplete. Leaving that.

Now Compiz...

Fedora 12 / 32bit works fine, but 64bit segfaults... every application segfaults. Tried compiz (desktop-effects), glxgears and even glxinfo... they all core dump, with both SELinux on and off. SELinux have no effect.

[root@localhost ~]# glxgears

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

-Technologov

[Technologov]

My output of GDB shows a picture similar to Bug #7061

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NOTE: RHEL 6 (BETA1) behaves differently than F12. Unlike F12, no segfaults here, but Compiz still fails, and reverts to 2D mode.

Output from RHEL6:

[user@localhost ~]$ desktop-effects 
OpenGL Warning: No pincher, please call crStateSetCurrentPointers() in your SPU
OpenGL Info: Using XSHM for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.
compiz (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format
compiz: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/compiz/libwall.so: undefined symbol: getCompPluginInfo

Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.
gtk-window-decorator: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a decoration manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current decoration manager.
OpenGL Warning: No pincher, please call crStateSetCurrentPointers() in your SPU
OpenGL Info: Using XSHM for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.
compiz (video) - Warn: No 8 bit GLX pixmap format, disabling YV12 image format
compiz: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/compiz/libwall.so: undefined symbol: getCompPluginInfo
Cannot register the panel shell: there is already one running.

-Technologov

[misha]

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