Josh Blum has implemented OpenGL-based versions of the FFT, waterfall, and scope sinks in gr-wxgui. These have been merged into the trunk as of revision 9291, and will be part of the 3.2 release.
This feature available to those who have installed GNU Radio via a source code build from the GNU Radio trunk repository. You will not be able to use it if you are using the release tarballs, the release repository, or binary package installations. You will need to have OpenGL available for your graphics card, and have installed the python-opengl bindings. This is the default for many systems, but please see your distribution documentation for details. Currently, the new displays must be explicitly enabled in your GNU Radio preferences, though in release 3.2 they will become the default with fall back to the non-GL versions if GL is not available. Please see: http://gnuradio.org/trac/browser/gnuradio/trunk/gr-wxgui/README.gl ...for details on how to enable. If you have written your own GNU Radio applications that use wxgui sinks, you will not have to make any changes to your source code for these. The existing Python scripts in gr-utils and gnuradio-examples will automatically take advantage of the new functionality if enabled. To obtain this new code, you will need to update your GNU Radio trunk distribution, and re-run the build: (From the top-level source code directory) $ svn update $ ./bootstrap $ ./configure (...whatever you might currently use...) $ make $ make check $ sudo make install We are looking for testers, to measure the difference in performance between the non-GL and GL versions, and in particular, the performance of the GL versions when using a non-accelerated host-based GL implementation like Mesa (without DRI). In particular, the waterfall implementation is a vast improvement over the existing one. Try usrp_fft.py -W to view. Thanks, Josh! _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
