Latest update... After much messing around I found I have a SiS M760 graphics card, spec here: http://www.icg.isy.liu.se/~pejoh/Ubuntu6.10_A7640.html
I have installed 'sisctrl' which allows for the control of the tv out and all other aspects of the various display options, which is from here: http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsispart1.shtml#23 lso changed the xorg.conf and added the sis driver option so sisctrl appears to be working. Also on that page is this depressing info: - DRI ("Direct Rendering Infrastructure") is the basis for OpenGL and hardware 3D acceleration. Without DRI, X.org/XFree86 will use software rendering for OpenGL and 3D which is really slow. - The X driver this page is about has nothing to do with DRI. Instead, a separate driver is needed for this feature. This separate driver is developed by the DRI developers. I do not do any DRI related development, hence asking me questions about DRI is useless (and such questions won't be answered). - DRI is only supported on the 300 series (300/305, 630, 730). A DRI driver for the SiS 300 series is provided by XFree86 4.1, 4.2(.1), XFree86 4.4 and X.org 6.7.0 and later. XFree86 4.3 does not contain a SiS DRI driver; However, installing the drivers from 4.2(.1) works well. - *Once again: There is no DRI/OpenGL/3D support for the SiS 6326, 5597/5598, 530/620, 315, 550, 650, 651, 740, 330, 661, 741, 760, 761 including all model variations with letters in the model number."* This does not sound good - '760' being my card. I did use to be able to run GEM on this machine with Puredyne about 18 months ago, any info why it's not possible now - or is it - would be much appreciated? Best wishes, Jb 2009/11/2 J bz <[email protected]> > Apologies for it taking a while to get back to this - lots of kids, > half-term holidays, Halloween etc... > > Right then, laptop first: > > lspci | grep VGA > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] > 661/741/760 > PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adaptor > > it's a Debian Install, maybe 18 months old or so. > > glxgears > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual > > glxinfo > name of display: :0.0 > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual > > visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav > id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > 0x21 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > 0x4c 32 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None > > > Thanks peeps. > > BTW - Claude, top tunes on GOSUB10. > > Regards, > > Jb > > > > > 2009/10/28 Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]> > > Claude Heiland-Allen said : >> > J bz wrote: >> > >Hey Lukasz, >> > > >> > >Thanks for the response. >> > > >> > >Hmm: >> > > >> > >Couple of things going on here then; >> > > >> > >1. Yes defo xorg.conf issues with my main home desktop computer. >> > >> > What's the hardware? (eg, provide 'lspci | grep VGA' output) >> > What's the Puredyne flavour (debian- or ubuntu-based?) >> > (From below, it's a full install.) >> > What's the content of the xorg log? ('/var/log/Xorg.0.log' or similar) >> > >> > Maybe try moving xorg.conf out of the way completely - newer X is >> > quite good at autodetecting. >> > >> > >2. Problem with GEM on my laptop due to no OpenGL driver, or is this >> also a >> > >xorg.conf issue? >> > >> > What's the hardware? (eg, provide 'lspci | grep VGA' output) >> > What's the Puredyne flavour (debian- or ubuntu-based?) >> > (From below, it's a full install.) >> > Does other OpenGL software (eg, 'glxgears') work? >> > What does 'glxinfo' say? >> > >> > G'luck, >> >> maybe we should really finish this report tool, >> >> Claude, could you put these info requests as a blueprint for >> bouillon_cube? https://launchpad.net/bouilloncube >> >> >
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