On 10/08/2016 07:35 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 19:21:31 -0700 Eric <eri...@cox.net> said: > >> On 10/08/2016 05:06 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >>> On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 09:59:27 -0700 Eric <eri...@cox.net> said: >>> >>>> On 10/08/2016 02:33 AM, Simon Lees wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 10/08/2016 06:25 PM, Eric wrote: >>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you Simon, >>>>>> >>>>>> I was able to get it working using the repository. I did find out that >>>>>> the problem was with the new NVIDIA driver that I have to choose >>>>>> software rendering instead of OpenGL. With OpenGL I just get the mouse >>>>>> cursor icon displaying with nothing else. Using software rendering >>>>>> makes my desktop a little sluggish on this machine. >>>>>> >>>>>> I am going to see if I can role back the NVIDIA update somehow. My >>>>>> google search has not led me with the right info on how to do that yet >>>>>> on openSUSE. >>>>>> >>>>>> Eric Meddleton >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Updates should remain available, so if you go to yast search for NVIDIA >>>>> in the software manager, there should be a version tab that you can use >>>>> to roll back. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Unfortunately, the previous version for NVIDIA is not available in yast, >>>> just the version I have installed and the i586 version. (But that is >>>> getting into openSUSE territory and not really applicable to e-users >>>> discussion.) >>>> >>>> Now that I remember, I had a similar situation on a different machine >>>> with Arch linux a year or so ago. That machine had a NVIDIA GeForce >>>> GTX570 card. I have just lived with the software rendering on that >>>> machine without any noticeable difference maybe due to it having an >>>> intel i7 processor. No updates on NVIDIA or enlightenment and the ELF >>>> libraries has helped since then and the downgrade would have meant >>>> also downgrading the kernel so I just let it go. It may just need to be >>>> re-installed to get it all sorted out and I just have not wanted to try >>>> that yet. :-) >>>> >>>> The machine in question now only has an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core >>>> Processor 5600+ and is getting a little old. I will try updating >>>> openSUSE to the next version to see how that goes. >>>> >>>> Thank you very much for your help. >>> >>> hmmm i wonder if it's the shader cache? try >>> >>> rm -rf ~/.cache/evas* >>> >>> >> That did not work. >> >> I tried on another partition an install of openSUSE 42.1 with >> enlightenment 19.3. It tells me that my GPU does not support OpenGL 2.0 >> when I select hardware rendering. I wonder if the last NVIDIA update >> rendered my graphic card obsolete when it comes to hardware acceleration. >> >> Thank you for your help. > > that either means no gl libraires at all, no gl engine module for evas, or > they > fail to init (< opengl 2.0 version or shaders fail to compile or any gl > context > create fails).. or the blacklist is checking in that blacklists software > rendered gl drivers >
Your making my head hurt. :-) Does this mean that the distribution binaries may not be compiled in a way that my machine can use OpenGL? On my original problem, I managed to downgrade the NVIDIA driver to version 304.131 using the driver listed at http://www.nvidia.com/drivers/beta and now I have composite rendering using openGL. Hooray. Thank you, Eric Meddleton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
