[OT] Re: [PD] [GEM] gem and video ?

[pix]

this doesn't necessarily mean that your card doesnt have DRI, it just
means that you have a lot of tinkering to do before it will work.

pix.

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:12:06 +0200
"Yves Degoyon" <ydegoyon at free.fr> wrote:

> a big OOOPS !!!
> 
> I checked my card with 'glxinfo'
> and it says :
> 
> Direct Rendering : No
> 
> I thought it would have all 3D features but no.
> 
> Anyway, it's gonna be hard to change
> on my laptop and, besides, as it fits me needs,
> I won't try to do it.
> 
> thanks and sorry for the confusion.
> 
> Yves Degoyon.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yves Degoyon" <ydegoyon at free.fr>
> To: <rat at telecoma.net>; <mik at antwerpen.be>
> Cc: "pd-list" <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 12:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] [GEM] gem and video ?
> 
> 
> > sorry, no.
> >
> > my card has direct rendering, all mesa demos work fine.
> > it's an Acer Lab Aladdin i1 chipset
> > which does graphics and audio.
> >
> > the problem is that it's the latest release
> > of Mesa ( 3.5 ) and Redhat 7.
> >
> > and although you get this error,
> > some gem examples work afterwards.
> >
> > Yves Degoyon.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <rat at telecoma.net>
> > To: <mik at antwerpen.be>
> > Cc: "pd-list" <pd-list at iem.kug.ac.at>
> > Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 11:33 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PD] [GEM] gem and video ?
> >
> >
> > > 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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