As the topic says sdl opengl stopped working after I switch my gfx card
from a nvidia g3ti200 to a ati radeon 9600. This is most likely a driver
issue but I have no idea how to fix it. As far as I know both the ati-
and nvidia-drivers have hardware accel. opengl support.
I’ve tested other SDL opengl apps and they all seem to suffer from this
problem. It would kinda suck if you had to have a nvidia gfx card to be
able to get opengl support in SDL under linux(dist is gentoo btw.).
The error message I’m getting is ‘Unable to init SDL: No available video
device’ generated by your standard init code. My application had no
trouble running on the g3ti200, any ideas ?
-JK
You haven’t installed your graphics card correctly.
Install the drivers from ati and it should work, I don’t have any ati
card so I can’t tell you how to install them but there should be a
document for that.
btw, ATI is not known to have good Linux support (but hopefully it will
be better soon).
Jimmy Karlsson wrote:> As the topic says sdl opengl stopped working after I switch my gfx
card from a nvidia g3ti200 to a ati radeon 9600. This is most likely a
driver issue but I have no idea how to fix it. As far as I know both
the ati- and nvidia-drivers have hardware accel. opengl support.
I’ve tested other SDL opengl apps and they all seem to suffer from
this problem. It would kinda suck if you had to have a nvidia gfx card
to be able to get opengl support in SDL under linux(dist is gentoo btw.).
The error message I’m getting is ‘Unable to init SDL: No available
video device’ generated by your standard init code. My application had
no trouble running on the g3ti200, any ideas ?
-JK
SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl
I trust that the package management system (portage) installed it
correctly but I’ll do some checking. Can it be that I’m running the 2.6
(some test version) that?s messing things up. It’s just that the only
thing that’s not working is SDL opengl, q3, nwn and glut apps works just
fine so I know that opengl in general works.
Alexander Bussman wrote:> You haven’t installed your graphics card correctly.
Install the drivers from ati and it should work, I don’t have any ati
card so I can’t tell you how to install them but there should be a
document for that.
btw, ATI is not known to have good Linux support (but hopefully it will
be better soon).
Jimmy Karlsson wrote:
As the topic says sdl opengl stopped working after I switch my gfx
card from a nvidia g3ti200 to a ati radeon 9600. This is most likely a
driver issue but I have no idea how to fix it. As far as I know both
the ati- and nvidia-drivers have hardware accel. opengl support.
I’ve tested other SDL opengl apps and they all seem to suffer from
this problem. It would kinda suck if you had to have a nvidia gfx card
to be able to get opengl support in SDL under linux(dist is gentoo btw.).
The error message I’m getting is ‘Unable to init SDL: No available
video device’ generated by your standard init code. My application had
no trouble running on the g3ti200, any ideas ?
-JK
SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl
SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl
Oh, so every OpenGL application except the SDL OpenGL applications do work?
hmmm… if so, I can’t tell you what’s wrong.
I’m running Linux 2.6-test10 but with a nvidia card and it works fine.
Jimmy Karlsson wrote:> I trust that the package management system (portage) installed it
correctly but I’ll do some checking. Can it be that I’m running the
2.6 (some test version) that?s messing things up. It’s just that the
only thing that’s not working is SDL opengl, q3, nwn and glut apps
works just fine so I know that opengl in general works.
Alexander Bussman wrote:
You haven’t installed your graphics card correctly.
Install the drivers from ati and it should work, I don’t have any ati
card so I can’t tell you how to install them but there should be a
document for that.
btw, ATI is not known to have good Linux support (but hopefully it
will be better soon).
Jimmy Karlsson wrote:
As the topic says sdl opengl stopped working after I switch my gfx
card from a nvidia g3ti200 to a ati radeon 9600. This is most likely
a driver issue but I have no idea how to fix it. As far as I know
both the ati- and nvidia-drivers have hardware accel. opengl support.
I’ve tested other SDL opengl apps and they all seem to suffer from
this problem. It would kinda suck if you had to have a nvidia gfx
card to be able to get opengl support in SDL under linux(dist is
gentoo btw.).
The error message I’m getting is ‘Unable to init SDL: No available
video device’ generated by your standard init code. My application
had no trouble running on the g3ti200, any ideas ?
-JK
SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl
SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl
SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl
OK, I feel really stupid now, it turns out that the core problem was
lack of support for X in libsdl, ie. I had forgotten to compile in
support for it. Well, the hardest of problems often has the simpliest of
solutions…or something like that anyway.
-JK
Alexander Bussman wrote:> Oh, so every OpenGL application except the SDL OpenGL applications do work?
hmmm… if so, I can’t tell you what’s wrong.
I’m running Linux 2.6-test10 but with a nvidia card and it works fine.
Jimmy Karlsson wrote:
I trust that the package management system (portage) installed it
correctly but I’ll do some checking. Can it be that I’m running the
2.6 (some test version) that?s messing things up. It’s just that the
only thing that’s not working is SDL opengl, q3, nwn and glut apps
works just fine so I know that opengl in general works.
Alexander Bussman wrote:
You haven’t installed your graphics card correctly.
Install the drivers from ati and it should work, I don’t have any ati
card so I can’t tell you how to install them but there should be a
document for that.
btw, ATI is not known to have good Linux support (but hopefully it
will be better soon).
Jimmy Karlsson wrote:
As the topic says sdl opengl stopped working after I switch my gfx
card from a nvidia g3ti200 to a ati radeon 9600. This is most likely
a driver issue but I have no idea how to fix it. As far as I know
both the ati- and nvidia-drivers have hardware accel. opengl support.
I’ve tested other SDL opengl apps and they all seem to suffer from
this problem. It would kinda suck if you had to have a nvidia gfx
card to be able to get opengl support in SDL under linux(dist is
gentoo btw.).
The error message I’m getting is ‘Unable to init SDL: No available
video device’ generated by your standard init code. My application
had no trouble running on the g3ti200, any ideas ?
-JK
SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl
SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl
SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl
SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl