No 3D Acceleration after AMD Catalyst update

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CalcProgrammer1
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No 3D Acceleration after AMD Catalyst update

Post by CalcProgrammer1 »

I updated my AMD Catalyst drivers from 12.3 preview to 12.4 preview and I lost 3D acceleration on my guests (all of them). I reverted to 12.3 final and it did not fix the problem. Something else may be causing the problem, but it occurs on all of my machines (Ubuntu 11.04/11.10, Debian Stable/Testing, Windows XP/Vista). The guest additions are installed and I've reinstalled them several times trying to correct the problem. The guest display resizes as it should, but any time I try to use 3D acceleration it either gives an error or graphical corruption. I've done glxgears from Debian Stable and the window where the gears are rendered is just a black box. The guest thinks that 3D is enabled and is using the vboxvideo driver, but when it actually tries to use 3D it fails. Here is the output from glxinfo on Debian Stable:

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name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: Chromium
server glx version string: 1.3 Chromium
server glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, 
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
client glx vendor string: Chromium
client glx version string: 1.3 Chromium
client glx extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, 
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
GLX version: 1.3
GLX extensions:
    GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, 
    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
OpenGL vendor string: Humper
OpenGL renderer string: Chromium
OpenGL version string: 0.0 Chromium 1.9
OpenGL extensions:
    , GL_CR_state_parameter, GL_CR_cursor_position, GL_CR_bounding_box, 
    GL_CR_print_string, GL_CR_tilesort_info, GL_CR_synchronization, 
    GL_CR_head_spu_name, GL_CR_performance_info, GL_CR_window_size, 
    GL_CR_tile_info, GL_CR_saveframe, GL_CR_readback_barrier_size, 
    GL_CR_server_id_sharing, GL_CR_server_matrix,  GL_EXT_stencil_two_side

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EDIT:
My host system is Windows 7 64-bit, Core i7 930 @ 4.0GHz, 12GB RAM, 2x ATI Radeon 5870 in CrossFire.
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Re: No 3D Acceleration after AMD Catalyst update

Post by Perryg »

A log file (as an attachment) from one of the failing guests would be more beneficial.
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Re: No 3D Acceleration after AMD Catalyst update

Post by CJ Jackson »

I reported that under ticket number 10496 and attached the log files. I'm getting that as well.
CJ Jackson
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Re: No 3D Acceleration after AMD Catalyst update

Post by CJ Jackson »

I have just reverted back to Catalyst 12.2, 3D Accelerator is now working, I can confirm 12.3 and above breaks the 3D Accelerator feature in Virtualbox, I believe the fault lies with AMD on this one, I think they change the OpenGL API.
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