Re: [PlayerStage-Gazebo] SGIX rendering

[Nate K. <nk...@ro...>]

Thanks for that information Solly. Hopefully the next version of
gazebo will not have these problems.

-nate

On 3/31/06, Solly Brown <so...@cs...> wrote:
> Problem solved. For the benefit of those who have similar problems in
> the future...
>
> If you've installed nvidia drivers using debian packages and you can't
> get SGIX rendering to work, it may be best to revert to using the nvidia
> installer. As I reported previously, I was able to get the drivers
> installed (seemingly without error) from debian packages, and was then
> able to successfully run all sorts of programs requiring 3d
> acceleration... except Gazebo. Removing the debian nvidia-* packages and
> going with the nvidia installer has fixed the gazebo problems, so
> there's obviously some issue there with the SGIX pbuffer extension
> included in the debian version of the driver.
>
> Cheers, Solly
>
> Solly Brown wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've traced the root of my gazebo problems to a new nvidia graphics
> > card... so I'm wondering if there's any graphics card gurus out there
> > that can give me an idea of what's gone wrong.
> >
> > I should be able to use the SGIX renderMethod with an nvidia card,
> > right? But here's what I get:
> >
> > $ wxgazebo test.world
> > starting server
> > waiting for server
> > using display [:0]
> > X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range fo=
r
> > operation)
> >   Major opcode of failed request:  145 (GLX)
> >   Minor opcode of failed request:  27 ()
> >   Value in failed request:  0x0
> >   Serial number of failed request:  13
> >   Current serial number in output stream:  15
> > server died
> > stopping server
> >
> > I've got "direct rendering: Yes" and I should have SGIX pbuffer support
> > (see glxinfo output attached below). I can also run other test programs
> > like glxgears (1700 fps) and tuxracer no problems.
> >
> > At the moment wxgazebo crashes with SGIX, and it's not working properly
> > with GLXP either. With the GLXP renderMethod I can't display terrain
> > models properly... they get chopped off and only a fraction of the tota=
l
> > terrain file is actually displayed (see my previous post "truncated
> > terrain in gazebo").
> >
> > Installation of the graphics card drivers appeared to go smoothly. I've
> > got a GeForce 6200 running under debian kernel 2.6.15-1 (I used the
> > nvidia kernel packages from debian to install the drivers).
> >
> > Can anyone give me an idea where to look / what to do next? I can get
> > gazebo to work fine (though very slowly) on this machine with just the
> > onboard graphics, so not sure what the problem is. If it's a card/drive=
r
> > problem is there any other program I can use to test whether they are
> > working ok? Is there a possibility that there's some code in gazebo
> > causing the problem?
> >
> > Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
> >
> > Thanks, Solly
> >
>
>
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