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

2019-09-19 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 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 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 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 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: powerpc not found in packages.debian.org

2019-09-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Javier! On 9/20/19 2:30 AM, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: powerpc port does not appear in packages.debian.org. There is powerpcspe instead, which is not found since it was removed. This is a known problem and not something we as Debian Ports maintainer have any influence on. This needs to be f