Ant Spotlight screensaver was (Want to Build PC for Fedora Use)

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 12:46:03AM +0100, Colin J Thomson wrote:
> From: Colin J Thomson <colin at g6avk.demon.co.uk>
> Organization: wings.webhop.org
> To: pepebuho at pananet.com,
>         For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 00:46:03 +0100
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: Ant Spotlight screensaver was (Want to Build PC for Fedora Use)
> Reply-To: colin at g6avk.demon.co.uk,
>         For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 
> On Monday 05 Jul 2004 00:37, Javier Perez wrote:
> > My Ant Spotlight screensaver just shows a blank screen.
> >
> > I do not see any error message
> > I am using FC2 with Gnome
> >
> > What should I check?
> 
> This screensaver uses openGL so you need to have 3D video drivers installed, 
> testing this here in KDE (not fedora's) it works fine with my NVidia card, 
> but using the the default 2D drivers all the GL screensavers will just give 
> you a blank screen,
> 
> Thats my findings anyway..

Try loading the software open-GL libraries.

  xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.7.0-2
  xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.7.0-2

DRI should also be enabled IIRC.

Software 3d works just not as fast....


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