Me too, I'm not able to play with Gem under Fedora 8 with fglrx driver. I'll give more info about this problem.
***** Here's my Fedora and graphic driver versions: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Mar 29 09:54:46 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux display: :0.0 screen: 0 OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL renderer string: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700 OpenGL version string: 2.1.7412 Release ***** Here's the Gem lib (cvs compiled) loaded by Pd: GEM: Graphics Environment for Multimedia GEM: ver: 0.91-cvs GEM: compiled: May 7 2008 GEM: maintained by IOhannes m zmoelnig GEM: Authors : Mark Danks (original version) GEM: Chris Clepper GEM: James Tittle GEM: IOhannes m zmoelnig GEM: with help by Guenter Geiger, Daniel Heckenberg, Cyrille Henry, et al. GEM: found a bug? miss a feature? please report it: GEM: homepage http://gem.iem.at/ GEM: bug-tracker http://sourceforge.net/projects/pd-gem/ GEM: mailing-list http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/gem-dev/ GEM: compiled for SIMD architecture: MMX GEM: using MMX optimization ***** Here's the dmesg output concerning the X server crash [fglrx] PCIe has already been initialized. Reinitializing ... [fglrx] Reserve Block - 0 offset = 0X7ffb000 length = 0X5000 [fglrx] Reserve Block - 1 offset = 0X0 length = 0X40000 [fglrx] Reserve Block - 2 offset = 0X7fbb000 length = 0X40000 [fglrx] interrupt source 20008000 successfully enabled [fglrx] enable ID = 0x00000004 [fglrx] Receive enable interrupt message with irqEnableMask: 20008000 [fglrx] interrupt source 10000000 successfully enabled [fglrx] enable ID = 0x00000005 [fglrx] Receive enable interrupt message with irqEnableMask: 10000000 Hope this helps :-) Tommaso IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > Tim wrote: > >> I have this problem too. I don't think it will be as simple as >> tweaking any config files though. Perhaps the eventual arrival of DRI2 >> will improve things. I don't know too much about the fglrx situation >> either, other than what I've read at the Phoronix forums. Perhaps help >> can be found there. >> >> This issue came after the Hardy upgrade though, right? weird. I may >> try compiling against opengl 1.5, as I did in gutsy. >> > > > does the problem still persist in recent Gem builds? > (with recent i mean *post* 2008-05-05) > > i would be interested to hear how things perform with my recent hacks. > additionally it would also be good to hear from linuxers using intel-gfx > cards whether these changes have improved anything on their side. > > > fgamsdr > IOhannes > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list