[mythtv-users] Opengl

[r10 at cs.aau.dk]

>> Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>> On 11/22/2005 4:17 PM Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>>>> Raphael Pooser wrote:
>>>
>>> Rasmus B. Nielsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> what is the problem when I try to use opengl in music-player or 
>>>>> in the gallery my box freezes, and uses 100% of CPU. But I have 
>>>>> installed opengl and it works (I have 250 FPS in glxgears,before 
>>>>> I added DRI to X11, I had 54 FPS) ?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> what kind of card are you using?  Do you have the nvidia binary 
>>>> drivers or ati binary drivers installed
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> correctly
>>>
>>>> , etc?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've seen many cases where they did not install correctly using
>>> binary packages because links weren't properly created or some 
>>> other "little" thing like that.
>>
>>
>>
>> And so how does one tell if his nvidia drivers are installed 
>> "correctly"?  I'm running nvidia drivers built via portage on a 
>> Gentoo 2.6.13 system.  Yet I don't think I have any video 
>> acceleration as visualizations seem to "stutter" slightly and my CPU 
>> is at 100%.  This is on an Athlon XP 2800.
>>
>
>      Look at your xorg.conf file.  Usually in /etc/X11.  You should 
> see something like this in the file somewhere:
>
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier	"Videocard0"
> 	Driver		"nvidia"
> #	Driver		"nv"
> 	VendorName	"Rosewill"
> 	BoardName	"NVIDIA GeForce 5200FX"
> 	Option		"NoDDC"
> EndSection
>
>      The *key* is that Driver is nvidia, *not* nv.
>
>      Also, take a look at the X log file.  Usually in /var/log.  Look for:
>
> (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
> (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
> 	compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.7676
> 	Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
>
>      Actually, looking at the log file should have been the first 
> thing to check.  Oh well.
>

In my X log I have a entry that says that my VIA driver is loadet, and 
I also have hardware acceleration of MPEG2/4 video (supported by the 
video chip)

Regards,
Rasmus




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