On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:15 PM, David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:34:01 +0400 Igor Murzov <e-m...@date.by> wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:32:13 +0900 >> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: >> >> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:32:49 +0400 Igor Murzov <e-m...@date.by> >> > said: >> > >> > > On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:22:14 +0100 >> > > thomasg <tho...@gstaedtner.net> wrote: >> > > >> > > > Attached you'll finde a few trivial patches which fix typos or >> > > > clear things up. >> > > >> > > Great. I also have a list of unclear messages like: >> > > >> > > "Your screen does not support OpenGL." >> > >> > your display doesn't support opengl - may be a driver problem. may >> > be a config problem. may be a missing gl module... who knows. as >> > such gl is really linked to specific screens - one may be capable >> > and another not depending what gpu powers it... :) >> >> I think that "Your system does not support OpenGL" would be more >> correct. > > Raster is right on this one. If you have two different graphics cards, > and one of them supports OpenGL, but the other does not, then you > should only get that message on the graphics card that does not. So > it's not your system that is not supporting OpenGL, just that one > graphics card. > > On the other hand, saying your system does not support OpenGL, when the > card you are not using supports it fine, would be wrong. It's the > graphics card that is at fault. > > On the gripping hand, if there's only one card, or it's the driver > that's at fault, then saying your screen does not support OpenGL is > still correct. B-) > > Note that two different graphics cards is more common than you might > think. Motherboards these days often come with built in crappy > graphics cards, as well as the built in crappy sound cards they have > come with for a while now. Lots of people would put a real graphics > card in. I did after trying out my motherboards crappy graphics. lol > > For the record, I have about a dozen motherboards in my kitchen with > built in graphics cards. I expect them all to be crappy, and I expect > some of them don't support OpenGL. For my clients purposes, these > deficiencies are not a problem. > > -- > A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants > coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. >
To clear this argument up once and for all, I propose the attached patch. Hope that makes everyone happy :)
0001-comp-clearer-error-messages.diff
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