Hi James, I tried your patch on my machine (ubuntu 9.04 ashamed ATI radeon non-supported) and it's working fine.
ATI is a crap. If you want to make serious 3d/video stuff in GEM on Linux or you change video card, or you go back 8.04. Meanwhile you may want to check this tips for a decent configuration of ATI cards:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Additional_options_for_the_radeon_driver https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
this helped me to not go crazy and throw my video card... but I still can't work properly. hope this helps..
Marco
What's more, with desktop effects enabled gem has a lot of weirdness! The window border disappears, the lower half of the window displays a garbled image, and it corrupts the rest of my desktop! So I disabled desktop effects and am currently now having trouble with multiple gemheads - please see the attached patch. If all 3 gemheads are enabled, the first two seem to switch places very quickly (many times a second) - they should be static and scroll with the key presses. However I've just tested this on my desktop box running karmic with an nvidia card and it seems fine!
If anyone can help with any of these issues, please let me know - it's very frustrating!
thanks,
James
2010/1/14 Marco Donnarumma devel@thesaddj.com:
ATI is a crap. If you want to make serious 3d/video stuff in GEM on Linux or you change video card, or you go back 8.04. Meanwhile you may want to check this tips for a decent configuration of ATI cards:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Additional_options_for_the_radeon_driver https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
Thanks for the thinkwiki.org link, I've not seen that one. I'm tempted to revert to Hardy 8.04 but have read it's also possible to just downgrade xorg. Might give this a try first. So can someone confirm it's definitely the driver and nothing to do with gem? Just want to make sure before I completely hack up my OS! Is there any other test I could do?
Jack - thanks for the gemhead tip - I had tried numbering them from 1 but it was the same result.
James
2010/1/14 Marco Donnarumma devel@thesaddj.com:
Hi James, I tried your patch on my machine (ubuntu 9.04 ashamed ATI radeon non-supported) and it's working fine.
ATI is a crap. If you want to make serious 3d/video stuff in GEM on Linux or you change video card, or you go back 8.04. Meanwhile you may want to check this tips for a decent configuration of ATI cards:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Additional_options_for_the_radeon_driver https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
this helped me to not go crazy and throw my video card... but I still can't work properly. hope this helps..
Marco
Ok, here's an update on my gem troubles... I've repartitioned my hard drive and installed Ubuntu 8.04 and Pd version 0.42.5-extended-20100114. I've also installed the ATI driver which is now available in Hardware Drivers. So far so good. I can open the gem patch I sent yesterday, but when I click [create, 1( I get the following errors in the console:
error: GEM-Xwin: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
error: GEM-Xwin: GLXBadContext
error: GEM: problems making glX-context current: refusing to continue error: GEM: try setting the environment variable GEM_SINGLE_CONTEXT=1 error: GEM-Xwin: GLXBadContext
error: GEM: Unable to create window error: [gemwin]: no window made ... you might be able to track this down from the Find menu. error: GEM: Create window first!
I tried running pd from gdb as IOhannes suggested and it outputs the following:
Starting program: /usr/bin/pd [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] tk scaling is 1.237138508371385 [New Thread 0xb7d0f6b0 (LWP 12399)] <init> : Avifile RELEASE-0.7.47-080115-14:47-4.2.3 <init> : Available CPU flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pbe up bts est tm2 <init> : 1600.00 MHz Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz detected [New Thread 0xb66b7b90 (LWP 12405)] [New Thread 0xb5bc0b90 (LWP 12406)] [New Thread 0xb53bfb90 (LWP 12407)] [New Thread 0xb4bbeb90 (LWP 12408)]
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb7d0f6b0 (LWP 12399)] 0xb40bfcc0 in ?? () (gdb) socket receive error: Connection reset by peer (104) quit The program is running. Exit anyway? (y or n) y
So it seems that my gem issues are not driver related? Can anyone shed some light on what is going on?
thanks
James
James Dunn wrote:
2010/1/14 Marco Donnarumma devel@thesaddj.com:
ATI is a crap. If you want to make serious 3d/video stuff in GEM on Linux or you change video card, or you go back 8.04.
[snip]
Ok, here's an update on my gem troubles...
[snip]
error: GEM: try setting the environment variable GEM_SINGLE_CONTEXT=1
Did you try that? In a terminal run:
GEM_SINGLE_CONTEXT=1 pd -lib Gem
(works with bash shell, other shells may differ)
If that works, then you can add this to your ~/.bashrc or similar:
export GEM_SINGLE_CONTEXT=1
So it seems that my gem issues are not driver related? Can anyone shed some light on what is going on?
The GEM_SINGLE_CONTEXT=1 works for me here (Debian Lenny with old driver version as newer versions have dropped support... "aptitude hold" is my friend iirc).
Claude
Quoth Claude Heiland-Allen, on 15/01/10 15:32:
error: GEM: try setting the environment variable GEM_SINGLE_CONTEXT=1
Did you try that? In a terminal run:
GEM_SINGLE_CONTEXT=1 pd -lib Gem
(works with bash shell, other shells may differ)
If that works, then you can add this to your ~/.bashrc or similar:
export GEM_SINGLE_CONTEXT=1
I tried GEM_SINGLE_CONTEXT=1 pd -lib Gem in a terminal and that works fine :) but adding export GEM_SINGLE_CONTEXT=1 to ~/.bashrc did nothing... do I need to add something else?
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