openGL probglem

[Michael Havens]

should I apt-get install xvba? search ...xvba gives the same output you
have?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

>  Run glxgears and glxinfo, make sure your card is reporting.  Using
> fglrx, it should work.
>
> Make sure you have the xvba drivers loaded too, that's the video codec
> acceleration.
>
> mb at host:~$ apt-cache search xvba
> xvba-va-driver - XvBA-based backend for VA API (AMD fglrx implementation)
>
> Might have gotten purged with your video driver upgrade issues.
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 01/06/2014 10:59 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
> I tried starting XBMC and an information window appeared saying:
>
>      XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering.
>      Install an appropriate graphics driver.
>
> this suggests I uninstalled the driver because it WAS working. how did
> that happen? what
> should I install?  I thought perhaps 'apt-get install opengl' but the
> repository includes only opengl-4.2-html-doc and opengl-4.2-man-doc
> which seems to be the documentation.
>
> An inquiring mind wants to know.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
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