I am trying to set up my server so that I can use Chromium remotely, which I need to put away some of the silly IP restrictions... Therefore, I need to utilize X11 forwarding and - apparently? - need to have OpenGL available.
First, some info of the hardware:
- The connecting client is: macOS 10.14, XQuartz 2.7.11 (xorg-server 1.18.4)
- The server to which I want to connect to is...
This:
# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
(The preview kept formatting that code weird, so I had to do a split here, sorry for that!)
Now, whenever I launch Chromium, I immediately get messages that swrast_dri.so was not found, which turns out to be a software renderer. Also, running xdriinfo came up with this (some noise due to ssh -v):
# xdriinfo
debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 5 win 65536 max 16384
debug1: client_request_x11: request from ::1 44410
debug1: x11_connect_display: $DISPLAY is launchd
debug1: channel 1: new [x11]
debug1: confirm x11
Screen 0: not direct rendering capable.
debug1: channel 1: FORCE input drain
So, I learned that I need to install some kind of video driver. Since my Mac has an embedded Intel GPU (Mid. 2015 MacBook Pro), I decided to install Mesa, in hopes that this would fix the problem - which it did not. So far, I installed these:
# dpkg -l | grep -i mesa
ii libegl1-mesa:amd64 13.0.6-1+b2 amd64 free implementation of the EGL API -- runtime
ii libgl1-mesa-dev:amd64 13.0.6-1+b2 amd64 free implementation of the OpenGL API -- GLX development files
ii libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 13.0.6-1+b2 amd64 free implementation of the OpenGL API -- GLX runtime
ii libglapi-mesa:amd64 13.0.6-1+b2 amd64 free implementation of the GL API -- shared library
ii libglu1-mesa:amd64 9.0.0-2.1 amd64 Mesa OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii libglu1-mesa-dev:amd64 9.0.0-2.1 amd64 Mesa OpenGL utility library -- development files
ii libosmesa6:amd64 13.0.6-1+b2 amd64 Mesa Off-screen rendering extension
ii libosmesa6-dev:amd64 13.0.6-1+b2 amd64 Mesa Off-screen rendering extension -- development files
ii libwayland-egl1-mesa:amd64 13.0.6-1+b2 amd64 implementation of the Wayland EGL platform -- runtime
ii mesa-common-dev:amd64 13.0.6-1+b2 amd64 Developer documentation for Mesa
ii mesa-utils 8.3.0-3 amd64 Miscellaneous Mesa GL utilities
# dpkg -l | grep -i x11
ii libfontenc1:amd64 1:1.1.3-1+b2 amd64 X11 font encoding library
ii libice-dev:amd64 2:1.0.9-2 amd64 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library (development headers)
ii libice6:amd64 2:1.0.9-2 amd64 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libqt5x11extras5:amd64 5.7.1~20161021-2 amd64 Qt 5 X11 extras
ii libsm-dev:amd64 2:1.2.2-1+b3 amd64 X11 Session Management library (development headers)
ii libsm6:amd64 2:1.2.2-1+b3 amd64 X11 Session Management library
ii libtk8.6:amd64 8.6.6-1+b1 amd64 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11 v8.6 - run-time files
ii libva-x11-1:amd64 1.7.3-2 amd64 Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux -- X11 runtime
ii libx11-6:amd64 2:1.6.4-3+deb9u1 amd64 X11 client-side library
ii libx11-data 2:1.6.4-3+deb9u1 all X11 client-side library
ii libx11-dev:amd64 2:1.6.4-3+deb9u1 amd64 X11 client-side library (development headers)
ii libx11-xcb-dev:amd64 2:1.6.4-3+deb9u1 amd64 Xlib/XCB interface library (development headers)
ii libx11-xcb1:amd64 2:1.6.4-3+deb9u1 amd64 Xlib/XCB interface library
ii libxau-dev:amd64 1:1.0.8-1 amd64 X11 authorisation library (development headers)
ii libxau6:amd64 1:1.0.8-1 amd64 X11 authorisation library
ii libxaw7:amd64 2:1.0.13-1+b2 amd64 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxcomposite1:amd64 1:0.4.4-2 amd64 X11 Composite extension library
ii libxdamage-dev:amd64 1:1.1.4-2+b3 amd64 X11 damaged region extension library (development headers)
ii libxdamage1:amd64 1:1.1.4-2+b3 amd64 X11 damaged region extension library
ii libxdmcp-dev:amd64 1:1.1.2-3 amd64 X11 authorisation library (development headers)
ii libxdmcp6:amd64 1:1.1.2-3 amd64 X11 Display Manager Control Protocol library
ii libxext-dev:amd64 2:1.3.3-1+b2 amd64 X11 miscellaneous extensions library (development headers)
ii libxext6:amd64 2:1.3.3-1+b2 amd64 X11 miscellaneous extension library
ii libxfixes-dev:amd64 1:5.0.3-1 amd64 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extension library (development headers)
ii libxfixes3:amd64 1:5.0.3-1 amd64 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extension library
ii libxfont1:amd64 1:1.5.2-4 amd64 X11 font rasterisation library
ii libxfont2:amd64 1:2.0.1-3+deb9u1 amd64 X11 font rasterisation library
ii libxi6:amd64 2:1.7.9-1 amd64 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1:amd64 2:1.1.3-1+b3 amd64 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxkbcommon-x11-0:amd64 0.7.1-2~deb9u1 amd64 library to create keymaps with the XKB X11 protocol
ii libxkbfile1:amd64 1:1.0.9-2 amd64 X11 keyboard file manipulation library
ii libxmu6:amd64 2:1.1.2-2 amd64 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxmuu1:amd64 2:1.1.2-2 amd64 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility library
ii libxpm-dev:amd64 1:3.5.12-1 amd64 X11 pixmap library (development headers)
ii libxpm4:amd64 1:3.5.12-1 amd64 X11 pixmap library
ii libxrandr2:amd64 2:1.5.1-1 amd64 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxss-dev:amd64 1:1.2.2-1 amd64 X11 Screen Saver extension library (development headers)
ii libxss1:amd64 1:1.2.2-1 amd64 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxt-dev:amd64 1:1.1.5-1 amd64 X11 toolkit intrinsics library (development headers)
ii libxt6:amd64 1:1.1.5-1 amd64 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtst6:amd64 2:1.2.3-1 amd64 X11 Testing -- Record extension library
ii libxv1:amd64 2:1.0.11-1 amd64 X11 Video extension library
ii libxvmc1:amd64 2:1.0.10-1 amd64 X11 Video extension library
ii libxxf86dga1:amd64 2:1.1.4-1+b3 amd64 X11 Direct Graphics Access extension library
ii libxxf86vm-dev:amd64 1:1.1.4-1+b2 amd64 X11 XFree86 video mode extension library (development headers)
ii libxxf86vm1:amd64 1:1.1.4-1+b2 amd64 X11 XFree86 video mode extension library
ii tk 8.6.0+9 amd64 Toolkit for Tcl and X11 (default version) - windowing shell
ii tk-dev:amd64 8.6.0+9 amd64 Toolkit for Tcl and X11 (default version) - development files
ii tk8.6 8.6.6-1+b1 amd64 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11 v8.6 - windowing shell
ii tk8.6-dev:amd64 8.6.6-1+b1 amd64 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11 v8.6 - development files
ii x11-common 1:7.7+19 all X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
ii x11-utils 7.7+3+b1 amd64 X11 utilities
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+3+b1 amd64 X11 XKB utilities
ii x11proto-core-dev 7.0.31-1 all X11 core wire protocol and auxiliary headers
ii x11proto-damage-dev 1:1.2.1-2 all X11 Damage extension wire protocol
ii x11proto-dri2-dev 2.8-2 all X11 DRI2 extension wire protocol
ii x11proto-fixes-dev 1:5.0-2 all X11 Fixes extension wire protocol
ii x11proto-gl-dev 1.4.17-1 all X11 OpenGL extension wire protocol
ii x11proto-input-dev 2.3.2-1 all X11 Input extension wire protocol
ii x11proto-kb-dev 1.0.7-1 all X11 XKB extension wire protocol
ii x11proto-render-dev 2:0.11.1-2 all X11 Render extension wire protocol
ii x11proto-scrnsaver-dev 1.2.2-1 all X11 Screen Saver extension wire protocol
ii x11proto-xext-dev 7.3.0-1 all X11 various extension wire protocol
ii x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev 2.3.1-2 all X11 Video Mode extension wire protocol
Now mind you, this is obviously a Debian Server installation and I am litterally trying to add some kind of "desktop-y" stuff to it, which is very much something someone shouldn't do unless they know what they are doing. And to be fair - I do not know everything myself here.
So how do I get that missing swrast_dri.so and stop having Chromium complain about it being missing and mis-rendering completely? Because all I get is a big, blue box with pretty much nothing I can click. :)
Kind regards, Ingwie.
