Re: [Crystal-develop] Modern day minimum PC spec to run CS

[Stefano A. <wel...@gm...>]

you shouldn't need nvidia-settings nor drivers. if you've the fgrlx
installed you can ignore anything regarding libgl or nvidia aside cg (which
shouldn't have as dependency anything else from nvidia)


2014-05-10 20:57 GMT+02:00 Matthieu Kraus <mat...@ou...>:

> Not sure where you got the prerequisites library, but gotta agree - 2.0
> was still mostly targeted towards Cg which changed quite a lot lately - we
> put quite some effort into getting rid of the Cg dependency at least for
> all essentials (I personally tried to because there was no Cg support for
> non-linux unix systems, but with Cg being retired now it's even more
> important), so nvidia-specifics shouldn't be needed at all by now.
>
> PS: mixing Nvidia and AMD drivers causing issues with X.org is a somewhat
> unrelated issue - it works to some degree if you know exactly what you're
> doing, but it's easy to cause major issues due to the way those drivers are
> usually set up on linux (most easily caused is getting the wrong libGL I
> guess).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Wyett [mailto:aur...@gm...]
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 20:18
> To: cry...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Crystal-develop] Modern day minimum PC spec to run CS
>
> On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 23:27 +0530, Soumitra Saxena wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm probably not the most experienced person to contribute to this
> > discussion ( I'm participating in GSoC 2014 under Crystal Space). I
> > just felt that I should post my experience compiling Crystal Space for
> > the first time in Ubuntu 13.04 with a AMD Graphics Card.
> >
> > I feel that CS is targeted a lot toward nvidia chips. The prerequisite
> > libraries even include apt-get commands to nvidia-settings and
> > drivers. The first time I compiled CS, it ran perfectly, but a reboot
> > later, my Unity (the desktop) broke, and the entire system had to be
> > restored by removing the selected nvidia settings and reconfiguring my
> > X-Org drivers.
> >
> > I agree that CS requires the Cg library, thus maybe those nvidia
> > settings and drivers were important in some way, but even after
> > removing them, I am yet to face any errors.
> >
> > I just feel that support for AMD Chipsets must also be included
> > explicitly, and a possible turnaround should be found for the nvidia
> > installations, because they will break every system with AMD cards, in
> > my opinion.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
>
> At the time of the 2.0 release CS was a little too Cg that is true and was
> documented as such. Both these things will change for the next release. Cg
> will be deprecated and GLSL will be the primary.
>
> Oh... If anyone from AMD is listening. We are a free project and a few
> free sample cards to better support your hardware/drivers would not be
> turned down. :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Phil
>
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>
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