Re: hardware texturing broken on Octane HELP

From: UNIX Musuem (unixmuseum_at_verizon.com)
Date: 02/24/04

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    On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:41:58 +0000
    Khalid Schofield <oums0246@raven.linux.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

    > Hi,
    > my hardware texturing is broken on my Octane. It gives weird colours :-(
    >
    > Mplayer -vo gl2 is broke and gives purple or green colours only and the
    > 'Distort' demo is also broke. I've removed my graphics board, removed the
    > tram module and used an air duster to remove any dust. I've reseated the
    > video boards but still have the problem. Any idea what it could be. Please
    > see
    >
    > http://mainframe.homeunix.com/~khalid/video_problem.jpg
    >
    > for a pic of my broken distort demo. Mplayer looks much the same. Any idea
    > what could be wrong?
    >
    > This is a real problem now as I use hardware texturing a lot and it seems
    > to be totaly broken at the moment.
    >
    > Could it be software thats the problem?
    >
    > gfxinfo is
    >
    > Graphics board 0 is "IMPACTSR" graphics.
    > Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024
    > Product ID 0x2, 1 GE, 1 RE, 4 TRAMs
    > MGRAS revision 4, RA revision 0
    > HQ rev B, GE12 rev A, RE4 rev C, PP1 rev G,
    > VC3 rev A, CMAP rev E, Heart rev D
    > 21" monitor (id 0xb)
    > Video board present
    >
    > Channel 0:
    > Origin = (0,0)
    > Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 75.92Hz (1280x1024_76_32db)
    >
    >
    > running versions | grep GL I get
    >
    >
    >
    > Octane 3% versions | grep GL I fw_gtkglarea 04/16/2003 gtkglarea-1.2.3
    > OpenGL widget for GTK+ I fw_hp2xx 04/16/2003 hp2xx-3.4.0 HP-GL image
    > conversion tools I fw_xtraceroute 11/22/2003 xtraceroute-0.9.0 OpenGL
    > based traceroute GUI I gl_dev.books.OpenGL_PG 05/17/2003 OpenGL
    > Programming Guide I gl_dev.books.OpenGL_Porting 05/17/2003 OpenGL Porting
    > Guide I gl_dev.books.OpenGL_RM 05/17/2003 OpenGL Reference Manual I
    > gl_dev.books.OpenGLonSGI 05/17/2003 OpenGL on Silicon Graphics Systems I
    > gl_dev.man 05/17/2003 GL Documentation I gl_dev.man.gldev 05/17/2003 GL
    > Development Manual Pages I gl_dev.man.relnotes 05/17/2003 GL Development
    > Release Notes I gl_dev.sw 05/17/2003 GL Software I gl_dev.sw.gldev
    > 05/17/2003 GL Development Environment I gl_dev.sw.widget 05/17/2003 OpenGL
    > Widget Development Environment I gl_dev.sw64 05/17/2003 GL Software 64bit
    > I gl_dev.sw64.gldev 04/16/2003 64bit GL Development Environment I
    > gl_dev.sw64.widget 05/17/2003 OpenGL Widget 64bit Development Environment
    > I mpk_dev 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Development Environment,
    > 3.0.0 I mpk_dev.man 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Documents I
    > mpk_dev.man.base 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Man Pages I
    > mpk_dev.man.pg 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Programmers Guide I
    > mpk_dev.man.relnotes 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Release Notes
    > I mpk_dev.sw 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Software I
    > mpk_dev.sw.base 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Headers I
    > mpk_dev.sw.examples 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Example Code I
    > mpk_eoe 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Execution Only
    > Environment, 3.0.0 I mpk_eoe.man 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library
    > Documents I mpk_eoe.man.relnotes 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library
    > Release Notes I mpk_eoe.man.ug 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Users Guide
    > I mpk_eoe.sw 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Executable Software I
    > mpk_eoe.sw.base 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Shared Library I
    > performer_data 05/04/2003 OpenGL Performer 3.0.1 Database Samples I
    > performer_demo 05/04/2003 OpenGL Performer 3.0.1 Demos and Demo Data I
    > performer_eoe 05/17/2003 OpenGL Performer 3.0.1 Run-Time Environment I
    > shader_dev 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Development Environment I
    > shader_dev.man 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Reference I
    > shader_dev.man.compilers 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Compiler Man Pages
    > I shader_dev.man.isl 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 ISL Library
    > Documentation I shader_dev.man.relnotes 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1
    > Release Notes
    > I shader_dev.sw 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Software
    > I shader_dev.sw.compilers 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Software
    > I shader_dev.sw.examples 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Examples
    > I shader_dev.sw.headers 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Headers
    > I shader_dev.sw.liblinks 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Library Links
    > I shader_eoe 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Execution Environment
    > I shader_eoe.man 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Execution Environment Docs
    > I shader_eoe.man.isl 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 ISL Specification
    > I shader_eoe.man.relnotes 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Release Notes
    > I shader_eoe.sw 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Software
    > I shader_eoe.sw.libraries 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Libraries

    Khalid,
    Are you sure it's the hardware that's broken, not the mplayer? mplayer doesn't seem to me like a way of stress testing hardware texturing... Some of the demos will, CAD systems will (the ones that can actually do texturing), CAID will (Maya, Alias Studio, Blender, ...).

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