On 10/08/2016 09:26 PM, Eric wrote: > 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
And to finish this off, on my updated openSUSE 42.1 with the message that my GPU does not support OpenGL, I found that the NVIDIA driver supplied by openSUSE seems to be missing the nvidia-glG02-... file when compared to the other nvidia drivers using G03 or G04. I ended up installing the older driver 304.131 from nvidia's website and not I have OpenGL on this installation running enlightenment 21.2 Thank you all for your help and a great desktop, 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
