Archive for the tag "opengl"
Busy spheres
Last week, we had visitors at work who had done a Linux related job for us and were ready to demo their product. One of the consultants had a nice screensaver running on his Debian-powered laptop (or was it Ubuntu… I don’t remember). He told me it was called “busy spheres” but it took me [...]
Posted: 7 November, 2010 in Me, Software.
Tags: opengl, screensaver
Comments: 6
Compositing hard lock in KDE 4.5
People have written about their computer locking up with KDE 4.5.x in Slackware. These locks seem to be caused by the open source video drivers that are part of X.Org. These drivers incorrectly advertise some OpenGL capabilities when the KDE compositing manager queries them. As a result, the KDE window manager tries to enable non-working [...]
Posted: 16 October, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: compositing, kde45, opengl, xorg
Comments: 5