Flashing white boxes instead of visualization when running with projectm-pulseaudio

[prg318]

Configuration

Arch Linux 64
Radeon RX 580 w/ amdgpu drivers
projectM from this repo - tried master branch, and glsl

What happens

When running projectMSDL, visuals are fine. The program works as expected. However, when running projectm-pulseaudio (Qt version), the visuals are displayed as flashing white boxes and other artifacts. Here is an example:

https://xannode.com/UnhappyProjectM.png

Interesting Notes

• If I press "m" in projectm-pulseaudio, I will get a functional qt UI but there's nothing I can seem to do to get the visuals to show properly.
• If I run projectM-qt or projectM-pulseaudio from the released version of projectM (1.2.0) with the projectM.so from git, I get this same behavior._

Command line output

dir:/usr/share/projectM/config.inp 
reading ~/.projectM/config.inp 
[projectM] config file: /home/lukas/.projectM/config.inp
Failed to compile shader 'Vertex: v2f_c4f'. Error: 0:1(10): error: GLSL 3.30 is not supported. Supported versions are: 1.10, 1.20, 1.30, 1.40, 1.00 ES, 3.00 ES, 3.10 ES, and 3.20 ES

Failed to compile shader 'Fragment: v2f_c4f'. Error: 0:1(10): error: GLSL 3.30 is not supported. Supported versions are: 1.10, 1.20, 1.30, 1.40, 1.00 ES, 3.00 ES, 3.10 ES, and 3.20 ES

Failed to link program: error: linking with uncompiled/unspecialized shadererror: linking with uncompiled/unspecialized shader
Failed to compile shader 'Vertex: v2f_c4f_t2f'. Error: 0:1(10): error: GLSL 3.30 is not supported. Supported versions are: 1.10, 1.20, 1.30, 1.40, 1.00 ES, 3.00 ES, 3.10 ES, and 3.20 ES

Failed to compile shader 'Fragment: v2f_c4f_t2f'. Error: 0:1(10): error: GLSL 3.30 is not supported. Supported versions are: 1.10, 1.20, 1.30, 1.40, 1.00 ES, 3.00 ES, 3.10 ES, and 3.20 ES

Failed to link program: error: linking with uncompiled/unspecialized shadererror: linking with uncompiled/unspecialized shader
Failed to compile shader 'Vertex: blur1'. Error: 0:1(10): error: GLSL 3.30 is not supported. Supported versions are: 1.10, 1.20, 1.30, 1.40, 1.00 ES, 3.00 ES, 3.10 ES, and 3.20 ES

Failed to compile shader 'Fragment: blur1'. Error: 0:1(10): error: GLSL 3.30 is not supported. Supported versions are: 1.10, 1.20, 1.30, 1.40, 1.00 ES, 3.00 ES, 3.10 ES, and 3.20 ES

Failed to link program: error: linking with uncompiled/unspecialized shadererror: linking with uncompiled/unspecialized shader
Failed to compile shader 'Vertex: blur2'. Error: 0:1(10): error: GLSL 3.30 is not supported. Supported versions are: 1.10, 1.20, 1.30, 1.40, 1.00 ES, 3.00 ES, 3.10 ES, and 3.20 ES

Failed to compile shader 'Fragment: blur2'. Error: 0:1(10): error: GLSL 3.30 is not supported. Supported versions are: 1.10, 1.20, 1.30, 1.40, 1.00 ES, 3.00 ES, 3.10 ES, and 3.20 ES

Failed to link program: error: linking with uncompiled/unspecialized shadererror: linking with uncompiled/unspecialized shader
[PresetFactory] url is idle://Geiss & Sperl - Feedback (projectM idle HDR mix).milk
No Textures Loaded from /usr/share/projectM/textures
No Textures Loaded from /usr/share/projectM/textures
^C

[revmischa]

Only reason I could think of that -SDL would work and -pulseaudio wouldn't, would be either one wasn't rebuilt when you switched branches or because one of them isn't doing the proper GL context setup. Which is quite possible.

[deltaoscarmike]

Your graphic driver seems to support opengl ES, try a full rebuild (sdl and qt apps) with the configure flag --enable-gles this should fix the shaders compilation errors.

[prg318]

Thanks for the update @deltaoscarmike . Just did a full rebuild with the "--enable-gles" flag and "projectm-pulseaudio" binary works fine now.

So this issue seems to be isolated to projectM with openGLES disabled at build time

[revmischa]

New ticket for tracking this issue: #168