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MESA 3D Graphics Library Released – How To Install Mesa 17.3.3 in Ubuntu

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

MESA 3D graphics library released. How to Install Mesa 17.3.3 in Ubuntu via PPA. Mesa is an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification. OpenGL is a programming library for writing interactive 3D applications.

Hardware-accelerated OpenGL implementations are available for most popular operating systems today. Still, Mesa serves at least these purposes:

  • Mesa is used as the core of the open-source X.org DRI hardware drivers.
  • Mesa is quite portable and allows OpenGL to be used on systems that have no other OpenGL solution.
  • Software rendering with Mesa serves as a reference for validating the hardware drivers.
  • A software implementation of OpenGL is useful for experimentation, such as testing new rendering techniques.
  • Mesa can render images with deep color channels: 16-bit integer and 32-bit floating point color channels are supported. This capability is only now appearing in hardware.
  • Mesa’s internal limits (max lights, clip planes, texture size, etc) can be changed for special needs (hardware limits are hard to overcome).

Mesa 17.3.3

Mesa 17.3.3 is a bug fix release which fixes bugs found since the 17.3.2 release. Mesa 17.3.3 implements the OpenGL 4.5 API, but the version reported by glGetString(GL_VERSION) or glGetIntegerv(GL_MAJOR_VERSION) / glGetIntegerv(GL_MINOR_VERSION) depends on the particular driver being used. Some drivers don’t support all the features required in OpenGL 4.5. OpenGL 4.5 is only available if requested at context creation because compatibility contexts are not supported.

Bug fixes

  • Bug 104214 – Dota crashes when switching from game to desktop
  • Bug 104492 – Compute Shader: Wrong alignment when assigning struct value to structured SSBO
  • Bug 104551 – Check if Mako templates for Python are installed

Changes

Alex Smith (3):

  • anv: Add missing unlock in anv_scratch_pool_alloc
  • anv: Take write mask into account in has_color_buffer_write_enabled
  • anv: Make sure state on primary is correct after CmdExecuteCommands

Andres Gomez (1):

  • anv: Import mako templates only during execution of anv_extensions

Bas Nieuwenhuizen (11):

  • radv: Invert condition for all samples identical during resolve.
  • radv: Flush caches before subpass resolve.
  • radv: Fix fragment resolve destination offset.
  • radv: Use correct framebuffer size for partial FS resolves.
  • radv: Always use fragment resolve if dest uses DCC.
  • Revert “radv/gfx9: fix block compression texture views.”
  • radv: Use correct HTILE expanded words.
  • radv: Allow writing 0 scissors.
  • ac/nir: Handle loading data from compact arrays.
  • radv: Invalidate L1 for VK_ACCESS_VERTEX_ATTRIBUTE_READ_BIT.
  • ac/nir: Sanitize location_frac for local variables.

Dave Airlie (8):

  • radv: fix events on compute queues.
  • radv: fix pipeline statistics end query on compute queue
  • radv/gfx9: fix 3d image to image transfers on compute queues.
  • radv/gfx9: fix 3d image clears on compute queues
  • radv/gfx9: fix buffer to image for 3d images on compute queues
  • radv/gfx9: fix block compression texture views.
  • radv/gfx9: use a bigger hammer to flush cb/db caches.
  • radv/gfx9: use correct swizzle parameter to work out border swizzle.

Emil Velikov (1):

  • docs: add sha256 checksums for 17.3.2

Florian Will (1):

  • glsl: Respect std430 layout in lower_buffer_access

Juan A. Suarez Romero (6):

  • cherry-ignore: intel/fs: Use the original destination region for int MUL lowering
  • cherry-ignore: i965/fs: Use UW types when using V immediates
  • cherry-ignore: main: Clear shader program data whenever ProgramBinary is called
  • cherry-ignore: egl: pass the dri2_dpy to the $plat_teardown functions
  • cherry-ignore: vulkan/wsi: free cmd pools
  • Update version to 17.3.3

Józef Kucia (1):

  • radeonsi: fix alpha-to-coverage if color writes are disabled

Kenneth Graunke (2):

  • i965: Require space for MI_BATCHBUFFER_END.
  • i965: Torch public intel_batchbuffer_emit_dword/float helpers.

Lucas Stach (1):

  • etnaviv: disable in-place resolve for non-supertiled surfaces

Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez (1):

  • anv: VkDescriptorSetLayoutBinding can have descriptorCount == 0

Thomas Hellstrom (1):

  • loader/dri3: Avoid freeing renderbuffers in use

Tim Rowley (1):

  • swr/rast: fix invalid sign masks in avx512 simdlib code

Install Mesa 17.3.3

Run the following commands in terminal to install Mesa 17.3.3 bug fix release on Ubuntu Systems:

sudo apt-get update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"

Once installed, restart the system to apply changes.