Lookingglass Failed to create EGL surface

Software & Operating Systems Looking Glass
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I have been using Lookingglass for a while on my gentoo system. I had a recent system update and broke lookingglass though I have no idea how. My virtual machine is running without issue, but when I launch lookingglass I get the following:

[I]               main.c:996  | run                            | Looking Glass (B1-rc6-6-gb979752989+1)
[I]               main.c:997  | run                            | Locking Method: Atomic
[I]                egl.c:187  | egl_initialize                 | Double buffering is on
[I]                egl.c:201  | egl_initialize                 | Multsampling enabled, max samples: 4
[I]               main.c:902  | try_renderer                   | Using Renderer: EGL
[I]               main.c:1183 | run                            | Using Clipboard: X11
[I]              spice.c:197  | spice_connect                  | Remote: 127.0.0.1:5900
[E]                egl.c:428  | egl_render_startup             | Failed to create EGL surface (eglError: 0x300b)
[I]               main.c:1259 | run                            | Waiting for host to signal it's ready...

The client exits back to the command line with no further information. The only argument I am passing is “-a”.

I have tried rebuilding the entire client but continue to get the issue. Can someone point me in the right direction. I’m sure it is something simple I am missing which changed with my most recent system update but I cannot figure it out for the life of me.

Thanks

drc

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I bet you’re running a AMD GPU and have the amdgpu-pro packages installed? If so, amdgpu-pro doesn’t support OpenGL ES, you need to revert to the plain amdgpu packages.

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Pretty certain that I am not. I did an “lsmod | grep amd” and saw this:

amd
amdgpu               3842048  47
kvm_amd                90112  18
kvm                   659456  1 kvm_amd
mfd_core               16384  1 amdgpu
gpu_sched              32768  1 amdgpu
ttm                    90112  1 amdgpu
drm_kms_helper        163840  1 amdgpu
drm                   397312  18 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,amdgpu,ttm
i2c_algo_bit           16384  2 igb,amdgpu

Any other thoughts?

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Also, is gles what is needed? Not full gl? Maybe its missing somewhere else, like kwin or something (it is set to GL not GLES)

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The open source amdgpu kernel module works with the amdgpu-pro packages and is actually the preferred usage. OpenGL ES is provided by the userspace libraries not the kernel module. The amdgpu-pro packages are completely missing ES support.

What distro are you running? You can check for the pro packages easily under Ubuntu/Debian by running dpkg -l | grep amdgpu

I am sorry I confused this with a similar error of 0x3008, I believe the issue you’re having has been addressed by a pull request that was made earlier this month. I have just verified it and merged it with the repository (https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass/commit/70110b4a5aa2ef48bef0dc30340329bb27dcc332), can you please update and try again?

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That seemed to do the trick :slight_smile:

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Awesome, can you please then mark this thread as solved.

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So marked. Thanks so much for your help.