fwd: radeon GL woes

[Kevin Oberman]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Sid <sid at bsdmail.com> wrote:

> >So I've run into the radeon problem on xorg upgrade, running
> >mpv gives the
> >libGL error: Version 7 or imageFromFds image extension not found
> >libGL error: failed to load driver: r600
> >error.
>
> Hi, I've also had this problem.
> my ~/.xsession-errors file gives
>   libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
>   libGL error: image driver extension not found
>   libGL error: failed to load driver: radeon
>   libGL error: failed to open drm device: Permission denied
>   libGL error: failed to load driver: r600
>
> This error only shows when I have a libGL package on my system. It is one
> of, dbus-glib-0.104, glib-2.46.2_4, libglapi-13.0.4, libglesv2-13.0.4_1,or
> another GL package.
>
> Another program that needs libGL doesn't work. It didn't have to do with
> the /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory , or anything installed,
> except for GL programs. It's a bug that hasn't been reported.
>

This may or may not be the issue, but if you have any llvm port other than
llvm39 installed, libGL will crash and burn. If this is the case, delete
the older llvm packages and rebuild the MESA ports (libGL, libGLU, libglapi
and libglesv2).

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