[clug] 2 questions (glut'ish)

Daniel Pittman daniel at rimspace.net
Thu Aug 19 20:49:21 MDT 2010


Andrew Janke <a.janke at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

That is a very old driver; if it isn't required because you have ancient
NVIDIA hardware, perhaps try it again with a newer driver version?

If it is because your hardware is old and all, try with the free driver and
see if that makes any difference in the behaviour?

        Daniel

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