[PD] Gem: can't load library
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Mon Dec 4 22:43:22 CET 2006
On Dec 4, 2006, at 4:32 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
> On Dec 4, 2006, at 3:17 PM, zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:
>
>> Quoting Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>:
>>
>>>
>>> The autobuild machines most definitely do not have nvidia cards:
>>>
>>> root at debian-stable-i386:~ > lspci
>>> 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D
>>> Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c)
>>>
>>> So these builds do not run on the machine they were built on.
>>
>>
>> have you tried or are your remarks based on my statements about
>> needing nvidia?
>> my nvidia card's here support some SGI extensions, and i am pretty
>> sure that i don't run irix.
>>
>> i haven't heard of someone having problems with NV/ARB extensions
>> on their self-built Gem for quite a long time.
>>
>> so please check whether the binaries do work.
>
> Unfortunately, these binaries do not work. Marius knows more about
> it than me, he's been building up this box, its a relatively new
> Dell with an ATI card. The autobuild GNU/Linux/i386 machines are
> all the exact same hardware, old Compaqs with the ATI card above.
> So neither the compilation machine nor the machine running Gem have
> nvidia hardware. But Gem dies on the new Dell with that NV error
> that started this thread.
>
> So I guess as Chris said, there is probably a bug in the NV
> detection code.
Ok, wait I think I misunderstood. You are saying that the ancient
ATI card in the autobuild machines might support the nvidia
extensions, and they are being properly detected. I thought you mean
whether the card was nvidia or not (neither are).
It seems to load from the command line with -nogui, I am testing now
whether I can load an object.
.hc
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