{"id":8514,"date":"2019-01-10T15:17:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T15:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2019-01-10T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T15:17:50","slug":"install-mesa-18-2-8-ppa-ubuntu-18-04-18-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/install-mesa-18-2-8-ppa-ubuntu-18-04-18-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Mesa 18.2.8 via PPA in Ubuntu 18.04, 18.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/opengl-logo245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6802\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest Mesa graphics driver 18.2.8 is finally available to install in Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 18.10 via <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntu-x-swat\/+archive\/ubuntu\/updates\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu-X PPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mesa3d.org\/relnotes\/18.2.8.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mesa 18.2.8<\/a> was released two weeks ago with following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add the new Vega M, Vega 10, and Vega 20 PCI IDs<\/li>\n<li>Meson build system foxes.<\/li>\n<li>Gallium &#8220;Nine&#8221; Direct3D 9 state tracker fixes. <\/li>\n<li>VirGL driver fixes.<\/li>\n<li>A RADV hang fix for the Windows Yakuza game under DXVK with Steam Play<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For users sticking to the open source RadeonSI \/ RADV \/ Intel \/ Nouveau drivers, and want to enjoy some Linux games, you may follow below steps to install Mesa 18.2.8 in Ubuntu 18.04 and\/or Ubuntu 18.10:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> keyboard shortcut or from software launcher. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat\/updates<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisks feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mesa-ppa-bionic-600x89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"89\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mesa-ppa-bionic-600x89.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mesa-ppa-bionic-450x67.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mesa-ppa-bionic.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> After adding the PPA, do system update via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get dist-upgrade<\/pre>\n<p><i><code>apt-get update<\/code> is not required any more in Ubuntu 18.04 since adding PPA automatically refreshes system repositories.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Finally check your driver version via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">glxinfo | grep \"OpenGL version\"<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mesa1828-600x94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mesa1828-600x94.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mesa1828-450x70.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mesa1828.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To restore changes and downgrade to the default drives shipped in Ubuntu 18.04, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat\/updates<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Mesa graphics driver 18.2.8 is finally available to install in Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 18.10 via Ubuntu-X PPA. Mesa 18.2.8 was released two weeks ago with following changes: Add the new Vega M, Vega 10, and Vega 20 PCI IDs Meson build system foxes. Gallium &#8220;Nine&#8221; Direct3D 9 state tracker fixes. VirGL driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1447],"class_list":["post-8514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-mesa-3d-graphics-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}