Re: Ogle on Solaris 8, Major success and a little tiny problem..

Wed Sep 04 2002, Vincent S. Cojot wrote:
> 
> Hello Hakan,
> 
> > We don't have such a cool graphics card here (or machine for that
> > matter) (We 'just' SubBlade 1000 1*600MHz with Creator3D or Elite3D
> > m6).
> 
> First of all, thanks for your reply. Well, the Creator3d and Elite3d should
> also exhibit this problem if you manage to use the default configuration.

Yes I know, we've experienced this before.

> One way to try this is to escape to a command line login from the CDE
> dtlogin program and start openwindows with the default 8bpp root window:
> 
> /usr/openwin/bin/openwin -dev /dev/fbs/ffb0 defdepth 8
> 
Don't run CDE (thank god) so we have a xdm loggin session and no access to
beable to start the X server ourselfs.

> Verify with xdpyinfo that you still get 1,8,24 depths with 8bpp being the
> default. That should reproduce the problem.
> 
> Also, about the patch.. perhaps we should protect these lines with
> "#ifdef __sun___".. What do you think? I do think that it is portable since
> it's taken from xmms and is just plain gtk.
> 
I'll defer that to people that are more well versed in the workings of
GTK. 
 
> > I've gatherd that the XVR-1000 and above line of graphics cards might
> > give better preformance if one doesn't use mediaLib to scale the image
> > and XShmPutImage it but instead use a OpenGL texture maped output.
> > mplayer has such anoutput mode and hopefully this could be adapted to
> > Ogle without to much work.
> 
> That's interesting.. I didn't know that OpenGL pixel rendering could be
> faster than XShm on that machine... At least, can we keep both versions of
> the routines together so we get the choice from ./configure when/if you
> introduce OpenGL pixel rendering?
> 
Yes, it should be selectable at runtime preferably.  No time and not much
motivation for working on this sice we don't have a good machine to test
on, a nice project for some one that feels like it though.

> I have another question: Since I am compiling with gcc-2.95.2 from the Sun
> Software Companion, my ogle libs get linked to the sparcv8plus+vis2 version
> of the Medialib.. Would I gain something by using a 64bit compiler and the
> sparcv9+vis2 version of Medialib? If you any idea...
> 
I don't think so, but we haven't tested.  Only GCC can be used to compile
libdvdread and it's headers, so unfortunatly Forte can't be used
(without quite some messing about).

-- 
Håkan Hjort