[gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

abhay <abhay.ilugd <at> 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 -pv ati-drivers

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies -
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "app-admin/eselect-opengl" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.2-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
- app-admin/eselect-opengl-1.0.3 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.
!!!    (dependency required by "media-video/ati-drivers-8.18.8-r1" [ebuild])


> Once you re-compile the drivers with opengl, pass the command
> opengl-update ati

> If you have already compiled the drivers with OpenGL then pass the 
> above-mentioned "update" command to make sure that your system uses the 
> driver's opengl. If it still doesn't work then you can pass "-opengl" use 
> flag for vlc and mythtv to disable opengl.

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

If I recall correctly, at one time  I was confused and trying
to use the ati supplied binaries and the ati-drivers package.
I think I got things working with the binaries and remove
the ati-drivers....It was over a year ago, so I'm not too
certain.


James

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