Ubuntu – No 3D acceleration in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with latest Vmware Workstation

14.04hardware accelerationvmware-workstation

I installed the latest version of vmware workstation (10.0.2) in ubuntu 14.04 LTS and I have the following problem:

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I use the open source driver "Radeon" (Galium 0.4) and Mesa 10.1.0.

My graphics card:

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

OpenGL vendor string: X.Org OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD
RS780 OpenGL core profile version string: 3.1 (Core Profile) Mesa
10.1.0 OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 1.40 OpenGL core profile context flags: (none) OpenGL core profile
extensions: OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.0 OpenGL shading
language version string: 1.30 OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:


lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 VGA

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] RS780D [Radeon HD 3300] [1002:9614]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:834d]
Kernel driver in use: radeon 01:05.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780 HDMI Audio [Radeon (HD) 3000
Series] [1002:960f]

glxinfo | grep -i render

direct rendering: Yes
GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS780
GL_MESA_texture_signed_rgba, GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_depth_clamp,
GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_depth_clamp,

I tried to install driconf and changed Enable S3TC texture compression…by default is No, and also edited the .vmx file, adding the line:

mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"

But it doesn't work.

I checked if this package is in my system:

libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0

I think it is a free implementation of the texture compression library for Mesa. This package is installed by default on Trusty.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Best Regards.

Best Answer

Your Ubuntu video driver does not support 3D. You need to install the opensource driver or the ati catalyst driver

Related Solutions

Ubuntu – VMware workstation 10.0.1 install won’t work 14.04

After looking around, you need to run this script:

#!/bin/bash

cat << EOF > /tmp/filter.c.patch
--- vmnet-only/filter.c 2013-10-18 15:11:55.000000000 -0400
+++ vmnet-only/filter.c 2013-12-21 20:15:15.000000000 -0500
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include "compat_module.h"
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
+#include <linux/version.h>
 #if COMPAT_LINUX_VERSION_CHECK_LT(3, 2, 0)
 #   include <linux/module.h>
 #else
@@ -203,7 +204,11 @@
 #endif

 static unsigned int
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 13, 0)
 VNetFilterHookFn(unsigned int hooknum,                 // IN:
+#else
+VNetFilterHookFn(const struct nf_hook_ops *ops,        // IN:
+#endif
 #ifdef VMW_NFHOOK_USES_SKB
                  struct sk_buff *skb,                  // IN:
 #else
@@ -252,7 +257,12 @@

    /* When the host transmits, hooknum is VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING. */
    /* When the host receives, hooknum is VMW_NF_INET_LOCAL_IN. */
-   transmit = (hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);
+   
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 13, 0)
+    transmit = (hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);
+#else
+    transmit = (ops->hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);
+#endif

    packetHeader = compat_skb_network_header(skb);
    ip = (struct iphdr*)packetHeader;
EOF

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
# untar the vmnet modules
tar -xvf vmnet.tar
#run a the patch you should have just saved earlier
patch vmnet-only/filter.c < /tmp/filter.c.patch
# re-tar the modules
tar -uvf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
#delete the previous working directory
rm -rf vmnet-only

You run it with root privileges.

Thanks to this website: http://fazlearefin.blogspot.ca/2014/03/vmware-workstation-10-not-working-on.html

Ubuntu – Error Installing Vmware Workstation On Ubuntu

To fix this we will need to apply this patch to filter.c in VMware Player module sources.

Step No 1

create a file in tmp directory name filter.c.diff and copy paste the following code init.

nano /tmp/filter.c.diff

205a206
> #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 13, 0)
206a208,210
> #else
> VNetFilterHookFn(const struct nf_hook_ops *ops,        // IN:
> #endif
255c259,263
<    transmit = (hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);
---
>    #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 13, 0)
>       transmit = (hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);
>    #else
>       transmit = (ops->hooknum == VMW_NF_INET_POST_ROUTING);
>    #endif

Step No 2

sudo -E -s

cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/ 

cp vmnet.tar vmnet.tar.original

tar xvf vmnet.tar vmnet-only/filter.c

patch vmnet-only/filter.c < /tmp/filter.c.diff

tar -uvf vmnet.tar vmnet-only/filter.c

rm -rf vmnet-only/

After that just run vmware and it will work fine.

   Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                             done
   Virtual machine communication interface                             done
   VM communication interface socket family                            done
   Blocking file system                                                done
   Virtual ethernet                                                    done
   VMware Authentication Daemon                                        done
   Shared Memory Available                                             done

Note : You also need to chown the .vmware directory otherwise your vmware changes will not save

example

sudo chown -R one:one .vmware

Where one is my username and one is my group. sudo chown -R $USER:$USER .vmware

HELP