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 -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
