opengl packages?

zoefschildpad · December 13, 2011, 7:25pm

I’m trying to work on a uni assignment but I couldn’t get it to run on windows, so I installed opensuse, because I was told it would work better on linux. Now from a classmate I got the following list, with a single apt-get command that should install all the packages I need, however, zypper doesn’t recognize the names of any of the packages, how do I find out what the equivalent packages are?

#'libsdl' :

#libsdl-ttf2.0-0
#libsdl-ttf2.0-dev
#libsdl-image1.2
#libsdl-image1.2-dev
#libsdl-mixer1.2
#libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
#libsdl1.2-dev
#libsdl1.2debian-all

#'libgl' :

#libgl1-mesa-dev

#'libglu' :

#libglu1-mesa-dev
#libglut3-dev

#'glew'

#libglewmx1.5-dev
#glew-utils

#install command :
sudo apt-get install libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsdl1.2debian-all libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglut3-dev libglewmx1.5-dev glew-utils

#sudo apt-get install libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libsdl-image1.2 #libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl1.2-dev #libsdl1.2debian-all libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev #libglewmx1.5-dev glew-utils

martin_helm · December 13, 2011, 7:58pm

To find the corresponding package names you can just run


zypper se sdl | grep devel

repeat the same for glew, mesa and glut.

zoefschildpad · December 13, 2011, 9:47pm

That worked, thanks. I can now compile the program.

I can’t, however, run it because it says GLSL 1.40 is not supported, but I can’t seem to find where to get that. I tried googling but I didn’t find anything. can someone point me in the right direction?

martin_helm · December 13, 2011, 10:21pm

Am 13.12.2011 21:56, schrieb zoefschildpad:
>
> That worked, thanks. I can now compile the program.
>
> I can’t, however, run it because it says GLSL 1.40 is not supported,
> but I can’t seem to find where to get that. I tried googling but I
> didn’t find anything. can someone point me in the right direction?
>
>
That is not a software or package. GLSL is the openGL shading language,
in your case you seem to need version 1.4 or higher, that means your
graphics card and your driver have to support it otherwise you have
absolutely no chance to use that.

What graphics card do you have and what driver do you have installed (in
short no older card with whatever driver you use will support that, they
will at best support GLSL 1.2).

martin_helm · December 13, 2011, 10:26pm

Check the output of


glxinfo | grep -i opengl

and post it here.
If you see an openGL version less than 3.1 your driver supports no glsl
1.4. Your only option if you have luck is then that there is a better
driver available for your card.

zoefschildpad · December 13, 2011, 10:45pm

OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD BARTS
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.11
OpenGL extensions:

I’m using an ati radeon HD 6870 and I installed the 64 bit drivers from ati.com latest version as of 2 hours ago (though they may not have installed correctly) I googled my card and it’s supposed to support openGL 4.1, so clearly that’s the problem. am I using crappy drivers?

martin_helm · December 13, 2011, 11:06pm

Am 13.12.2011 22:46, schrieb zoefschildpad:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
> OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD BARTS
> OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.11
> OpenGL extensions:
>
> --------------------
>
>
> I’m using an ati radeon HD 6870 and I installed the 64 bit drivers from
> ati.com latest version as of 2 hours ago (though they may not have
> installed correctly) I googled my card and it’s supposed to support
> openGL 4.1, so clearly that’s the problem. am I using crappy drivers?
>
>
The output shows that something went wrong with your driver
installation. You are using the open source driver which cannot fully
use the capabilities of your card.
I do not use ati myself but nvidia everywhere so I cannot help with the
drivers.
You should open a new thread (maybe hardware forum or multimedia forum)
to get help with the driver installation, after that is fixed
everything should be fine since you checked the opengl version your card
is able to support and that is more than sufficient.