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Lucky B
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 Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject: HOWTO: Fix OpenGL problems on ATI |
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This is not exactly a howto but a list of possible problems with solutions:
(there are 30+ threads that solve exactly the same problem, don't believe me? do a quick search for "LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH")
1. The obvious:
Make sure you've emerged ati-drivers and you've loaded the module.
Then make sure you're running the ati opengl drivers
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# opengl-update --get-implementation
ati
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"ati" is the reply of the program. If it doesn't say ati, then opengl-update ati.
2. 32bit problems:
If for example Enemy Territory or any other 32bit OpenGL app isn't working (et is most useful because it will complain when it's forced to load Mesa), you will have to fix an environment variable.
First test it out:
| Code: | | LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH="/usr/lib32/modules/dri" <32 bit OpenGL program of choice> |
if it works, yay!
We can't just blindly | Code: | | export LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH="/usr/lib32/modules/dri" |
because it will make 64 bit libraries/programs fail to find the appropiate DRI and revert to Mesa Software Emulated OpenGL, and we don't want that.
So we have a variety of options (Gentoo is about options).
a. Change the way we load the program
We could add the appropiate | Code: | | LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH="<path>" |
to the beginning of all your OpenGL programs, but this would be clunky at best.
b. change .bashrc and load all our programs from the terminal
Add | Code: | | LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH="/usr/lib32/modules/dri:/usr/lib64/modules/dri" |
to ~/.bashrc. This is also a bit quirky and you can forget that you have to load stuff from the terminal.
c. my favorite: add it to env.d
Add | Code: | | LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH="/usr/lib32/modules/dri/:/usr/lib64/modules/dri/" |
to /etc/env.d/99local (if it doesn't exist, then create it).
The reason I advocate 99local is so that you stay safe for apps updating the env.d's LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH. You don't want to over-write it and run into problems if the directories ever change.
After that's done:
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env-update
source /etc/profile
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You might have to restart X or KDE in order to use programs from your WM menues.
This is definitely a work in progress and I've forgotten the rest of the tweaks I've used, so go ahead and reply here with more, see if we can solve all the OpenGL problems in one spot. (if anyone has nVidia problem solutions feel free to post them also and we'll make this thread universal)
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