[PD] [GEM] gem and video ?

[rat at telecoma.net]

hmm i have no explaination 4 this. - maybe guenther or mark has.
as soon as my dri was working (matrox g400 and later nvidia gforce 2 gtx
pro) i had no problems anymore - if not to say it was "extreme" stable :-)
.

cheers

erich



On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, pix wrote:

> i have this same problem, but i AM using direct rendering, with an ATI
> card, using X4.1... i have tried gem on-and-off for quite a while across
> many machines and I don't think i've ever had a configuration that didn't
> crash when i shut windows.
> 
> my current configration gets the 'could not create single buffer window'
> error. if i don't use single buffer mode, it works fine except for the
> instabilities when closing windows... so, i have to save, very often :)
> 
> pix.
> 
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:33:33 +0200 (MEST)
> <rat at telecoma.net> wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > 
> > i think most of your problems arise because u have no direct rendering.
> > u have to use an opengl card with dri support like matrox g400 etc..
> > u can find the supported cards + more info at dri.sourceforge.net. 
> > 
> > once u have a working dri environment gem should load without the 
> > "could not create context blah .... " (i dont have the correct error in
> > my
> > mind).
> > 
> > with the commandline command "glxinfo" u can look up if u have direct
> > rendering or not.
> > 
> > cheers
> > 
> > erich
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 mik at antwerpen.be wrote:
> > 
> > > I get the same message and yes it works, but as soon as you 
> > > destroy the window, pd crashes. I think it has something to do 
> > > with the GL/Mesa libs which are included in XFree86 4.1.0.
> > > 
> > > mik
> > > 
> > > Quoting Yves Degoyon <ydegoyon at free.fr>:
> > > 
> > > > hi,
> > > > 
> > > > thanks for your hints, you're right,
> > > > gem works if you ignore this message
> > > > which seemed to me as a fatal error,
> > > > but, no, after that, it "somewhat" works.
> > > > 
> > > 
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