openGL probglem

[Michael Havens]

glxgears is cool. My card seems to be working.

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> should I apt-get install xvba? search ...xvba gives the same output you
> have?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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> 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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