On Saturday 16 September 2006 14:58, Eddy Petrişor wrote: > On 07/09/06, Andreas Beckermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > first of all: DRI drivers usually don't work very well. They have lots of > > problems and produce a lot of "weird" effects. That said direct rendering > > _should_ work with DRI drivers. > > > > Finding the issue however is a pretty difficult issue. Let's try some > > shots into the dark, please post: > > * The output of ldd /usr/games/boson [...] > > * The output of ldd /usr/bin/glxgears [...] > > * The output of glxinfo [...] > > * The first about 20 lines of console output when starting boson > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/usr/src/traduceri/dipo/di/4th/samba $ boson 2>/dev/null | > head > -n25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/usr/src/traduceri/dipo/di/4th/samba $ boson 2>&1 | > head > -n25 [int main(int, char**)] resolving GL, GLX and GLU symbols > [QLibrary* loadLibrary(const QString&)] Trying to guess correct > filename for libGL > searching in dir /usr/lib/ > using file /usr/lib/libGL.so
Please post the output of ls -l /usr/lib/libGL.so [...] > boson: ERROR: > [/build/buildd/boson-0.12dfsg1/boson/gameengine/speciestheme.cpp:288] oops > - no unit properties for 18 This is probably unrelated - but it looks like your data module is improperly installed. [...] > > Boson checks the result of glXIsDirect(), which tells whether the GLX > > context is direct (accellerated) or not. So the warning message is just > > fine :-) > > Are you sure that's what boson is doing? Yes > Glxgears does what you are > saying and gets a different result: [...] glxgears uses a different X display and a different GLX context. It actually may receive a direct context, while boson does not (e.g. if incompatible properties are requested). Finding out _why_ this happens is the trick here. Hard without direct access to your system :( Does anything change if you start boson using LD_PRELOAD_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/libGL.so boson ? CU Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

