Bug#498550: compizconfig-settings-manager: bicubic filter refuses to enable
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 11:34 +0100, Sheridan Hutchinson wrote:
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > Looks like your graphics card doesn't support pixel shaders
> > (GL_ARB_fragment_program is missing from the list of OpenGL
> > extensions), but the bicubic plugin can't work without (the bicubic
> > filtering algorithm is implemented as a pixel shader).
>
> Excellent analysis; with no error message message I would have never
> figured this one out.
>
> Looks like my poor little Thinkpad X40 only has so much chug :)
>
> I guess we can close the bug report.
Well, it would definitely be nice if the user got some kind of direct
feedback as to why it doesn't work. But I don't know how Sean Finney
(the compiz maintainer) wants to handle that.
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