Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: One can just add the main archive with: den [arch=all]http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable contrib non-free to one’s sources.list and run “apt update”. this worked! Actually, on one of the two laptops I have I left "sid" instead of unstable. Fixe

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread Michael Cree
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 09:26:31PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Also, have you installed the firmware-amd-graphics package which contains > > firmware necessary for many AMD/ATI cards? If I remember correctly, the > > firmware is needed on the G4 laptops with a Radeon chipset. > > you got it

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Sep 19, 2019, at 9:38 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 09:26:31PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >>> Also, have you installed the firmware-amd-graphics package which contains >>> firmware necessary for many AMD/ATI cards? If I remember correctly, the >>> firmware is ne

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: It looks like you are using software rendering anyway. What does "glxinfo" say? Can you paste the output here? name of display: :0 display: :0  screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.4 server glx extensions:  

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 9/18/19 8:14 PM, Riccaro Mottola wrote: first, I noticed something very strange: if I connect remotely to the PowerBook, then set DISPLAY :0 which shows things on the screen, glxgears run! Running GL applications through X forwarding is completely diff

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/19/19 9:43 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 9/18/19 8:14 PM, Riccaro Mottola wrote: first, I noticed something very strange: if I connect remotely to the PowerBook, then set DISPLAY :0 which shows things on the screen, glxgears run! Running GL applications through X forwarding is

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/18/19 8:14 PM, Riccaro Mottola wrote: first, I noticed something very strange: if I connect remotely to the PowerBook, then set DISPLAY :0 which shows things on the screen, glxgears run! Running GL applications through X forwarding is completely different than running them locally. When g

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi Riccardo, On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:14 PM Riccaro Mottola wrote: > > Hi Mathieu, > > On 2019-09-18 08:56:08 +0200 Mathieu Malaterre > wrote: > > > > > >> Hi all! > > > >> is anybody capable of using OpenGL on their PowerMacs? > > > > Do you mean on your PowerBook G4 ? That's odd it should wor

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-18 Thread Riccaro Mottola
Hi Mathieu, On 2019-09-18 08:56:08 +0200 Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi all! is anybody capable of using OpenGL on their PowerMacs? Do you mean on your PowerBook G4 ? That's odd it should work. Can you dump more context, eg, running through gdb or strace. first, I noticed something ve

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:21 AM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi all! > > is anybody capable of using OpenGL on their PowerMacs? Do you mean on your PowerBook G4 ? That's odd it should work. Can you dump more context, eg, running through gdb or strace. > I noticed that just starting glxgears

Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-17 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all! is anybody capable of using OpenGL on their PowerMacs? I noticed that just starting glxgears causes a "Bus error". I don't think this is a good sign. According to lspci, my card is detected as Mobility Radeon 9600. Any special configuration to do? I already put myself part of the vid