[GEM-dev] Gem (cvs) load error on debian/etch

[B. Bogart]

I had to use an extra flag on the nvidia installer to get it to put the
stuff in the right places. Working fine now.

So to be clear, what is the minimum version of the nvidia drivers that
works with the GLSL stuff? (1.0-9000?)

Thanks.

.b.

B. Bogart wrote:
> blech.
> 
> 
> Why? cause when I update things break, when I use the stuff in repos,
> stuff breaks less often when I update.
> 
> This time X refused to load the newest nvidia driver, probably because
> the location that X in etch expects modules is different than the place
> nvidia puts em. I did not investigate further.
> 
> Note the driver from the repo *IS* the nvidia binary, 1.0-8776, a little
> old, but I see no reason it would work any differently than the 1.0-8776
> driver from nvidia's website.
> 
> I think debian just makes a deb for the nvidia stuff, without changing it.
> 
> If nvidia's latest driver "just worked" as it used to, I'd be using it.
> But alas its doing something wrong from the eyes of my debian/etch
> machine, and I doubt that is the problem in the first place, though I
> guess I should figure out why the thing does not work on my machine...
> if only there was more time.
> 
> .b.
> 
> 
> chris clepper wrote:
>> On 1/26/07, *B. Bogart* <ben at ekran.org <mailto:ben at ekran.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hey all,
>>
>>     I changed from nvidia's binary driver to the one in the etch repo
>>     (8776). 
>>
>>
>> Why?  Only the Nvidia binary actually uses the GPU for rendering. 
>>
>>     Gem compiles (anon cvs update from today), but PD wont load it:
>>
>>     /usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem.pd_linux: /usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem.pd_linux:
>>     undefined symbol: glUniform2i
>>
>>
>> This was covered in the two previous postings to this list.  You need
>> non busted drivers with OpenGL 2.0 support.  The NV binaries certainly
>> work.
>>
>>
>>
> 
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