[PD] Gem B3 on g4 733 with Nvidia card

bbogart bbogart at ryerson.ca
Thu Mar 6 21:27:28 CET 2003


chris,

I have TWO graphics cards, render 0 and render 1, render 0 (primary 
display) is an nvidia card and according to the gl info it does have HW 
acceleration.

Or are you saying that BOTH my cards need HW acceleration to use GEM 
even on the screen that DOES have HW aceleration?!

*confused*

Ben


On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 03:01 PM, chris clepper wrote:

>> Render 1 (ATI)  has:
>>
>> and no HW acceleration.
>>
>> Does this give any indication as to the problem, seems to do the same 
>> thing if I put the PD window on the second screen and try creating a 
>> gem window.
>
> that's the problem right there.  you need hardware acceleration for 
> that card for GEM to work.  there is a problem with 10.2 installing 
> drivers for non OEM cards.  some people have reported that the point 
> updates have installed the hardware gl drivers, while other have had 
> mixed success with the ATI drivers available on the ATI website. 
> http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html
>
>
> cgc
>
>> Hope to get it fixed I really wanna try the firewire video input 
>> stuff!!!
>>
>> Thanks
>> ben
>>





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