On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 19:21:31 -0700 Eric <[email protected]> said:

> On 10/08/2016 05:06 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Oct 2016 09:59:27 -0700 Eric <[email protected]> said:
> >
> >> On 10/08/2016 02:33 AM, Simon Lees wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 10/08/2016 06:25 PM, Eric wrote:
> >>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you Simon,
> >>>>
> >>>> I was able to get it working using the repository.  I did find out that
> >>>> the problem was with the new NVIDIA driver that I have to choose
> >>>> software rendering instead of OpenGL.  With OpenGL I just get the mouse
> >>>> cursor icon displaying with nothing else.  Using software rendering
> >>>> makes my desktop a little sluggish on this machine.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am going to see if I can role back the NVIDIA update somehow.  My
> >>>> google search has not led me with the right info on how to do that yet
> >>>> on openSUSE.
> >>>>
> >>>> Eric Meddleton
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Updates should remain available, so if you go to yast search for NVIDIA
> >>> in the software manager, there should be a version tab that you can use
> >>> to roll back.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, the previous version for NVIDIA is not available in yast,
> >> just the version I have installed and the i586 version.  (But that is
> >> getting into openSUSE territory and not really applicable to e-users
> >> discussion.)
> >>
> >> Now that I remember, I had a similar situation on a different machine
> >> with Arch linux a year or so ago.  That machine had a NVIDIA GeForce
> >> GTX570 card.  I have just lived with the software rendering on that
> >> machine without any noticeable difference maybe due to it having an
> >> intel i7 processor.  No updates on NVIDIA or enlightenment and the ELF
> >> libraries  has helped  since then and the downgrade would have meant
> >> also downgrading the kernel so I just let it go.  It may just need to be
> >> re-installed to get it all sorted out and I just have not wanted to try
> >> that yet. :-)
> >>
> >> The machine in question now only has an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core
> >> Processor 5600+ and is getting a little old.  I will try updating
> >> openSUSE to the next version to see how that goes.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for your help.
> >
> > hmmm i wonder if it's the shader cache? try
> >
> > rm -rf ~/.cache/evas*
> >
> >
> That did not work.
> 
> I tried on another partition an install of openSUSE 42.1 with 
> enlightenment 19.3.  It tells me that my GPU does not support OpenGL 2.0 
> when I select hardware rendering.  I wonder if the last NVIDIA update 
> rendered my graphic card obsolete when it comes to hardware acceleration.
> 
> Thank you for your help.

that either means no gl libraires at all, no gl engine module for evas, or they
fail to init (< opengl 2.0 version or shaders fail to compile or any gl context
create fails).. or the blacklist is checking in that blacklists software
rendered gl drivers

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [email protected]


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