Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: opengl issues in emerge world

[Dieter Ries]

Hi,
Am Samstag 26 August 2006 13:54 schrieb Duncan:
> Dieter Ries <clip2@×××.de> posted 200608261244.05419.clip2@×××.de,
>
> excerpted below, on  Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:44:02 +0200:
> >> So, for the [problem of the ebuild not properly switching to xorg-x11
> >> opengl] try manually running eselect opengl list, then eselect
> >> opengl set <number for xorg-x11).  If it's screwed up, you may have to
> >> try toggling it to something else then back to xorg.
> >
> > there is only xorg-x11 in the list,
>
> That's interesting, as you say you are using the Nvidia slaveryware video
> drivers, which should give you NVidia's OpenGL drivers as well.

yes and they work, i get up to several 100 frames in some 1st person shooters.
i dont think so, but may be its interesting that i have a somehow new nvidia 
geforce 7900GT card, dunno.

>
> >> For the former problem, because the compatibility libs are pre-compiled
> >> binaries, remerging them goes pretty fast, so rather than mess with
> >> trying to get the detection order right, the easiest workaround is to
> >> simply unmerge the compatibility libs so the detection will find the
> >> proper 64-bit versions, then remerge the compatibility libs after
> >> you've merged whatever was choking on them.
> >
> > i re-installt the nvidia drivers without 32bit compatibility, but it
> > didnt work afterwards, either.  i cheched if the /usr/lib64/libGL.so
> > existed, but there was only /usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
> >
> > i linked it to /usr/lib64/libGL.so, and afterwards, emerge -avD
> > libquicktime worked.
> >
> > but xdriinfo still fails with the same error as posted in the last email
> > any ideas?
>
> OK, eselect opengl is definitely screwed up, as it's the one that should
> be creating the symlinks, and with the NVidia drivers, you should have the
> NVidia OpenGL option as well.
>
> What nvidia-* packages do you have merged?  You should probably have
> nvidia-drivers (or possibly nvidia-legacy-drivers if you have an old card),
> which is the merged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. If you haven't updated
> to nvidia-drivers (or legacy), then you'd need both kernel and glx.

i had not one of them, i installed the driver-package from nvidia.com by hand
now i tried emerging nvidia-drivers, which works, but then i can not play any 
32bit games, not even TETRIS via Dosbox.
>
> At this point, I'd try to straighten out the eselect opengl first.  If you
> play 32-bit games or run other 32-bit 3D (read OpenGL) enabled apps, go
> ahead and remerge it with 32-bit again, as that wasn't what I was
> referring to (more on that later).  Then try remerging eselect-opengl. I'm
> not sure how the detection works, but if you still don't have an entry for
> nvidia opengl after that, I'd try remerging the nvidia drivers again after
> eselect-opengl, then if necessary eselect-opengl again.

i emerged this nvidia-drivers package and remerged eselect-opengl, but the 
error was still the same. now both gl's are listed by eselect, but xdriinfo 
still doesnt compile

>
> Thus:
> emerge nvidia video drivers with 32-bit
> emerge eselect-opengl
> Take a look and see if you have an nvidia entry under eselect opengl list

how can i emerge nvidia drivers with 32bit emulation? there is no useflag for 
it.

>
> If not:
> emerge nvidia's drivers again
> emerge eselect-opengl again
> Take another look.
>
> If you still don't have them, consider checking for and filing if there
> isn't one, a bug on eselect-opengl.
>
> Once you get that straightened out, hopefully you'll be fine.
>
> FWIW, the other thing I was concerned about was the stuff in /emul.  That
> is, the 32-bit compatibility library packages named as
> app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-*, particularly xlibs.  I was suggesting if
> you have any of those merged, unmerge them temporarily then remerge them
> after the upgrade.  (Again, those are all pre-built binaries, no
> compiling, so they merge pretty fast as it's pretty much just a few file
> copies and updating the ld-cache.)

i removed that emul-linx-x86 xlibs and again did that emerge -avD world, which 
gives me 
# emerge -avD world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-7.0-r2  USE="opengl" 
VIDEO_CARDS="-i810 -mach64 -mga -r128 -radeon -s3virge -savage -sis -tdfx -trident -via" 
0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] x11-apps/xdriinfo-1.0.1  USE="-debug" 0 kB

this now. and here is something i wonder about: the VIDEO_CARDS dont match my 
make.conf, and nvidia is not in the list. this is my make.conf:

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse3"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
USE="pda unicode wxwindows truetype skins xine mp3 mpeg ogg tetex wmv xmms sdk 
vdread win32codecs -gnome X nsplugin qt kde cdr dvd dvdr alsa nfs games 
browserplugin mozilla"
LINGUAS="de"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
ALSA_CARDS="snd-intel8x0"
#FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/getdelta.sh \$\{URI\}"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/"


could this be the problem?



>
> However, while it's still possible you may need to do that, I'd worry
> about getting eselect opengl working correctly first.  If you are still
> having problems after that, /then/ it's time to worry about this.
> However, right now your system is in a somewhat unknown state in regard to
> opengl in general, and I'd want to get that fixed and functional before
> trying the other.
>
> Again, this is trying to help but I've no experience with it myself as I'm
> not going to run software that restricts my freedom, or purchase hardware
> from those who refuse to respect my choice of software freedom.  As such,
> while I can try to help, it's possible I'll miss something vital that
> someone willing to compromise their freedoms and running the
> software/hardware would pick up right away.
>
> --
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