[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-11 Thread James
abhay gmail.com> writes: > > Any other way to get opengl working with the radeon kernel driver? > > Should/can I use ati-drivers? or should I stick with the radeon > > supplied binary driver? > You can always compile without opengl support by using -opengl flag or you > can > try to use openg

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-11 Thread James
Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > No. Why do you think this? You only need xorg (merged with +opengl), > the radeon driver plus the appropriate DRI section in your xorg.conf > file, and the radeon DRM/DRI kernel module configured and loaded. > > Any other way to get opengl working with t

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-11 Thread James
Richard Fish asmallpond.org> writes: > My experience is that it works partially. When I have used radeonfb > with fglrx, everything starts normally, including X and KDE. But if I > try to switch to a console (or shutdown the system!), the system hangs > with a corrupted display. So yes, radeo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/10/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Fish schreef: > > If you want to try the ati-drivers, generally you just need to merge > > the package and change the "Driver" setting in xorg.conf from radeon > > to fglrx. > > Not completely true; the ati-driver module (fglrx) will n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread Holly Bostick
Richard Fish schreef: > If you want to try the ati-drivers, generally you just need to merge > the package and change the "Driver" setting in xorg.conf from radeon > to fglrx. > Not completely true; the ati-driver module (fglrx) will not work if the kernel DRM is compiled (either as a module o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/10/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf > [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 01) > > > So I need to add MESA to get OpenGL fixed? No. Why do you think this? You only need xorg (merged with +opengl), the radeon driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread abhay
On Friday 11 Nov 2005 12:22 am, James wrote: > lscpi reveals: > > :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf > [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9] (rev 01) > > > So I need to add MESA to get OpenGL fixed? > media-libs/mesa [ Masked ] > Latest version available: 6.4 >

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread James
Holly Bostick planet.nl> writes: > Well, depending on which ATI video card you have, the ati-driver package > may be the only one which supplies OpenGL for your video card's chipset > (above the 9250 must use the drivers, 9250 and below can use the kernel > 'radeon' driver and X.org MESA to get

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread James
ellotheth rimmwen gmail.com> writes: > > > Do you use vlc in mozilla to play videos? If you don't, then > > > pass "-mozilla" use flag for vlc on this system. > FWIW, emerge -pv vlc on my machine shows an nsplugin, but not a > mozilla use flag. Try it with -nsplugin, p'raps? Yes you are corre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread Holly Bostick
James schreef: > Hmmm. I not sure I did compile the ati-drivers: > > media-video/ati-drivers Available versions: 8.14.13-r2 [M]8.14.13-r3 > 8.14.13-r4 8.14.13-r5 *8.16.20 *8.16.20-r1 8.18.6 8.18.6-r1 8.18.8 > 8.18.8-r1 Installed: none > Well, depending on which ATI video card you hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread ellotheth rimmwen
On 11/10/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > abhay gmail.com> writes: > > Do you use vlc in mozilla to play videos? If you don't, then pass "-mozilla" > > use flag for vlc on this system. FWIW, emerge -pv vlc on my machine shows an nsplugin, but not a mozilla use flag. Try it with -nsplugin, p

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread James
abhay gmail.com> writes: > > I'm not so sure. I have a second system with the same (USE) flags > > set, and mythtv installs but vlc fails without the GL error: > > > > make[2]: Entering > > directory`/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.1-r1/work/vlc-0.8.1/mozilla' > > usr/bin/xpidl -I/usr/share/idl/mozi

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-10 Thread James
abhay gmail.com> writes: > When you compiled ati drivers did you enable opengl use flag? you can check > by > passing this command. This was a over a year ago, so I do not recall the details of getting xorg and the ati 7500 video driver to work. > emerge -pv ati-drivers On System 1: emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-09 Thread abhay
On Thursday 10 Nov 2005 7:31 am, James wrote: > I'm not so sure. I have a second system with the same (USE) flags > set, and mythtv installs but vlc fails without the GL error: > > make[2]: Entering > directory`/var/tmp/portage/vlc-0.8.1-r1/work/vlc-0.8.1/mozilla' > usr/bin/xpidl -I/usr/share/id

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-09 Thread abhay
On Thursday 10 Nov 2005 2:38 am, James wrote: > I tried to install mythtv and it failed because of "-lGL". I then tried to > update vlc, and it failed with the error message above. When you compiled ati drivers did you enable opengl use flag? you can check by passing this command. emerge -pv ati-d

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-09 Thread James
abhay gmail.com> writes: > On Thursday 10 Nov 2005 1:22 am, James wrote: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../ ../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ > >ld: cannot find -lGL > You are having problems with OpenGL. Did you compile > xorg with opengl support? > What is the output of these tw

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

2005-11-09 Thread James
abhay gmail.com> writes: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ > >ld: cannot find -lGL > > I know 'GL' is not a use flag, but I cannot seem to find what i need to > > install to fix this problem. Or the package that contains GL. I run KDE > > 3.4. > Yo