160328 Corbin wrote: > On 03/28/2016 02:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> Since I set up the system in my new machine in Oct 2015 , >> the 3D modules in Xscreensaver (now 5.34) have refused to run ; >> the rest of Xscreensaver is working as advertised. >> I did drop Perl support, but that seems to be related to I/net use >> & shows no sign of relating to 3D rendering. >> I have the 'opengl' flag enabled, have 'eselect-opengl' set to Nvidia >> & have 'qtopengl-4.8.6-r1' installed (also the virtual), >> tho' that is needed for Kdelibs with no sign of screensaving. > Is the screensaver package your having problems with > called "x11-misc/rss-glx" ?
No : it's Xscreensaver itself ; no also to your inquiries re USE flags. > Do you have the VIDEO_CARDS flag "nvidia" set in your "make.conf" ? Yes. > I am using Nvidia driver 340.96. I've just updated to 361.28 : everything else is working properly. > The "x11-misc/rss-glx" screensavers work just fine. I hadn't come across it before. If I emerge it, will it automatically be adopted by Xscreensaver ? Does anyone else have any thoughts re my original query ? Thanks so far (smile). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
