Bill; My problem may be that I am using a 'Restricted Driver' on the system the "ATI Accelerated Graphics Driver" .. possibly this makes for conflict.
~$ glxinfo | grep -i vendor server glx vendor string: SGI client glx vendor string: ATI OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. The card is an ATI Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE) and uses Driver "fglrx" I am very content with the screen display in general ... Do you think that changing the driver to "vesa" would degrade graphics overall? Maybe I need to spend some time on the Mesa site looking for answers. David On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 18:55 +0800, bill lam wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, David Vincent-Jones wrote: > > I found only 'lobomesa6' in Synaptic. After installing this I can get > > the Demo OpenGL package to open but J crashes when I try to run any > > demo. > > > > Tried to install other Mesa packages and needed a very messy cleanup > > process to recover ... nasty ... will not do that again! > > I guess you got a decent display card like nvidia that come with own > driver which conflicts with mesa. see what is the output > $ glxinfo | grep -i vendor > > A possible "workaround" is to use vesa driver but then it downgrades > to a cheap display card (ie, all except nvidia and ati/amd). > > $ sudo -e /etc/X11/xorg.conf > ... inside the device section, change to > Driver "vesa" > > restart x-server (ctrl-alt-backspace) to take effect. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
