How to check OpenGL ?
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Sat Mar 11 01:27:53 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 16:33 -0800, John Wendel wrote:
> Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> > Hello to All,
> >
> > how to check if my video card (ATI Radeo X300) supports OpenGL
> > and, if yes, if OpenGL is installed on my Fedora Core 4 ?
> >
> > I'm trying to install Second Life (a 3D simulation game by
> > Linden) which is now available on Linux (still beta level) but it seems it
> > needs OpenGL support.
> > Following error code are received during startup :
> > ...
> > INFO: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn't find matching GLX
> > visual
> > ...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bruno
> >
>
> Yes, your card supports OpenGl with the ATI proprietary driver.
>
> Did you yum install the "ati-fglrx" driver?
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
Bruno,
I think /usr/X11R6/bin/glxinfo might do it. It's part of
xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2.
Bob...
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