Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] problem with snd
From: Reuben Martin (MartinR@jbu.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 22:05:07 EET
>> Sounds like whatever graphical display you are trying to use is
>> trying to access an OpenGL related function (Or some kind of function
>> that has to do with 3D). The nv driver used for Nvidia cards supports
>> 2D ONLY. I would recommend going to Nvidia's web site and downloading
>> the latest driver and GLX driver that fits your distro configuration.
>> Then see if that fixes your problem. Basically the message is telling
>> you that it's trying to access something that simply does not exist
>> for the display device.
>
>Or you might avoid the kernal stability and latency problems that some
>people have with the nvidia drivers by sticking with the nv X driver,
>and installing the version of the OpenGL shared library that does all
>the 3D magic in software and thus won't ask the X server to do it. It
>is probably in another RPM package, at least, that's the way SuSE has
>handled this.
I tried this but it was extremely slow. I didn't mess with it to see if
I could get it to work better because I had no problems with the
Nvidia drivers.
>
>> Also, I doubt this is an ALSA problem, so always make sure that you
>> check to be sure that you have narrowed the problem down to an ALSA
>> specific problem before posting it on this list.
>
>Reuben Martin is confused as to which list he is responding to.
Oops. Sorry 'bout that. I tend to jump around reading from different
lists and forget which one I'm on. My apologies.
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