Re: hardware acceleration for GeForce2Go -- GL_EXT_bgra not supported

[Philipp Bliedung <fakeroot@web.de>]

Jason Kraftcheck wrote:

> Philipp Bliedung wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I activate hardware acceleration for my GeForce2Go 
> > Grafikkarte  -- Dell Inspiron 8100 ??
> >
> > When I try to start Americas Army (www.americasarmy.com) i get this 
> > error message:
> >
> > ~/programs/armyops$ ./armyops
> > GL_EXT_bgra not supported - bailing out.
> > History:
> > Exiting due to error
> >
> > I am running Debian woody with backports for Gnome 2.4 and KDE 3.1 ...
> > (NVidia driver: 1.0-4363)
> >
> > How can I activate GL_EXT_bgra support ??
> >
> > glxinfo gives me this:
> > [...]
> > name of display: :0.0
> > display: :0  screen: 0
> > direct rendering: No
> > server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
> > server glx version string: 1.3
> > server glx extensions:
> >   GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
> >   GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
> > [...]
>
>
> I see GL_EXT_bgra listed further down in the glxinfo output (in the 
> "OpenGL extensions" section):
>
> OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
> OpenGL renderer string: Quadro4 700 XGL/AGP/SSE2
> OpenGL version string: 1.4.0 NVIDIA 44.96
> OpenGL extensions:
>     GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multisample,
>     GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_shadow,
>     GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression,
>     GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
>     GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
>     GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix,
>     GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, GL_ARB_vertex_program, 
> GL_ARB_window_pos,
>     GL_S3_s3tc, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
>     ...
Upgrading to the newest driver did the trick.
I thought that wouldn't do anything, since i had a fairly recent driver 
but with driver 1.4.0 NVIDIA 44.96 it is working

Thanks,
Philipp