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Dave Jones
2001-08-07
2001-08-08
  • Dave Jones

    Dave Jones - 2001-08-07

    Hi!

    Continuing what was discussed in a previous thread, we've concluded that Chromium will not run under a Linux box with Nvidia's current drivers.

    Virtually all of the Linux boxes at Argonne have a GeForce card installed, but I was able to build Chromium against a stray that was using a Matrox G200.  Chromium worked without a hitch and we didn't get the null-rendered 'crserver' window when run with a Nvidia card.  Our current work-around is too build everything against MesaGL.

    I'm hoping this will be addressed sometime soon.  We'd like to use Chromium, but we're kinda stuck since our murals use GeForce3's.

    thx

     
    • Greg Humphreys

      Greg Humphreys - 2001-08-07

      I'm not sure what you mean by this, Dave -- all of Chromium's development and tests have been done exclusively using GeForce 2 and 3 hardware, with some additional testing on INDY and IR graphics.  I use it every single day on that hardware.  The demo done at the release meeting was done on a GeForce 2, and our cluster is a mix of Quadro2PRO's and GeForce 3's.

       
      • Dave Jones

        Dave Jones - 2001-08-08

        Fortunately, someone posted the fix in the Users list:
        http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/8602/0/

        glxCreateContext() from Nvidia seemed a bit more picky about getting the value "True" passed to it instead of "1".   (?)

         
        • Greg Humphreys

          Greg Humphreys - 2001-08-08

          This bug was *just* fixed this morning in Chromium -- sorry about the confusion.  I guess our setup was slightly different for some reason.  Anyway, please get the top-of-tree code, and everything should run OK.

           

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