From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EaHgH-00067v-KG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:01:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAAJ0qV3016091; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:00:52 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAAIu9J3031261 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:56:09 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EaHai-0007ac-Oc for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:56:08 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EaHY3-00021Y-VF for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:53:23 +0100 Received: from buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:53:23 +0100 Received: from wireless by buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:53:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc dies on GL Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:52:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200511100225.07059.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> <200511101244.42454.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com> <43737539.7060103@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 01ce7f7d-fb5a-406b-8b53-aa77631e50c2 X-Archives-Hash: 9e8ecbeb0a80850a4a9301a3f8d467c4 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 OpenGL support). So if you're > getting an error in OpenGL, that may be because you have no video > drivers with OpenGL support installed. lscpi reveals: 0000:01:00.0 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 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] 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? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list