Hardware acceleration working on Debian but not Arch

[andyrichardson]

Hey there 👋 Thanks for all the great work on this project!

I recently tried to set up a graphical environment using the Arch (arm64) image as a baseline. I'm not sure why but I'm unable to get 3d acceleration to work. For example, running glxgears results in a black window being shown (in both wayland and xorg).

Everything looks to be working fine however in the Debian (arm64) image. Is there a list of actions (environment vars, dependencies, kernel flags) that need to be taken to get GPU acceleration to work?

Here's the output of glxinfo -B on each instance

Arch (arm64) results

name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Mesa/X.org (0x1af4)
    Device: virgl (ANGLE (Apple, Apple M1 Max, OpenGL 4.1 Metal - 76.3)) (0x1010)
    Version: 22.2.3
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 0MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: compat (0x2)
    Max core profile version: 0.0
    Max compat profile version: 2.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa/X.org
OpenGL renderer string: virgl (ANGLE (Apple, Apple M1 Max, OpenGL 4.1 Metal - 76.3))
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 22.2.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 22.2.3

Debian results

name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Mesa/X.org (0x1af4)
    Device: virgl (0x1010)
    Version: 20.3.5
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 0MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: compat (0x2)
    Max core profile version: 0.0
    Max compat profile version: 2.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa/X.org
OpenGL renderer string: virgl
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 20.3.5
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00