[clug] 2 questions (glut'ish)

[Robert Edwards]

On 20/08/10 10:22, Andrew Janke wrote:
> Hi all,
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> 1. I am responsible for 2 legacy (~1990!) GLUT apps that were
> originally written on an SGI in GL and then I ported to OpenGL many
> years ago. Things have been rather peachy for a long time with only
> small changes required.
>
> However there is currently a bit of a show stopper issue with a
> combination of the nvidia drivers in Ubuntu Lucid
> (173.14.22-0ubuntu11) and freeglut. I get colormap issues and the app
> runs but everthing is in black and white (1 bit? :). Everything is
> fine with the karmic nvidia binaries though...
>
> So before I attempt to debug a binary blob, is anyone else out there
> using GLUT + nvidia and having the same issues?  As far as I can tell
> the bug is something to do with when the app requests the various
> display modes (glutGet(GLUT_DISPLAY_MODE_POSSIBLE)) and doesn't get
> what it expects, perhaps something has changed in the API...

Have you tried disabling (even uninstalling) compiz? I know compiz was
also in Karmic, so this may not be the cause, but it does cause all
manner of similar issues with Java and other 3D apps.

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.

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> 2. We should form a "linux party" for the next election.
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> a (1 list with wildly meandering threads is fine by me)