Full OpenGL (non-ES) HW support with Ubuntu on xM board?

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Hi Everyone,
I just got my xM board and it's fantastic. I managed to get Lucid up
and running using the image at http://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/lucid/ubuntu-10.04.1-r1-minimal-armel.tar.7z
and installed xfce. I've also installed the SGX drivers according to
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#SGX_Video_Acceleration. I was
wondering though if it's possible to get non-ES openGL support under
Lucid? I was hoping to run some things like pygame or pyglet.
Running glxhead (installed from the mesa-utils package) says that my
opengl renderer is still software.

Does anyone have any pointers? Or is this not possible?
http://beagleboard.org/hardware-xM says "opengl applications" which
got my hopes up :).

Thanks,
Gabe

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Keep bugging TI and Imagination Technologies .. :wink:

All we get is OpenGL ES... (and the sgx intel poulsbo users don't
even get that! )

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard#Graphics_accelerator

Regards,

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There are wrappers out there. Here is an example:
http://forum.openhandhelds.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=884

David

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In case you want to try GLES, I'd recommend you to try Maverick [1],
enable universe/multiverse repos and install libgles1-sgx-omap3 and
libgles2-sgx-omap3. This should be enough for you to play with SGX
drivers.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/OMAPMaverickInstall

Cheers,

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Hi,
I found this http://people.canonical.com/~rsalveti/maverick/sgx/HOWTOINSTALL.txt
and i have successfully installed it. How can i test it?

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Are you looking to write some code yourself or do you want an executable
to test with? Are you running X or in a console?

David.

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Are you looking to write some code yourself or do you want an executable
to test with? Are you running X or in a console?

David.

Hi David,
Yes, i want an executable to test with in any way. Thank you!

richi

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I got ubuntu-10.10-minimal-armel.tar.7z and followed the instructions at http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardLucid except substituting maverick for lucid.
After booting the SD card I used aptitude to install Gnome and other apps I need.
One thing I don't know is if it works for the xM, I have a C3 and only up to a C4 is mentioned in the procedure.
Regards
Sid.

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Well any Opengl ES demo should do..

You can get the TI demos from:

http://software-dl.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_sb/targetcontent/gfxsdk/

Graphics SDK 4.00.00.01

or, if you 'ignore' everything i wrote here about kernel
modules/libs/etc, as the demo files will be contained in the
"GFX_Linux_SDK.tar.gz" archive created by the script..

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#SGX_Video_Acceleration

Regards,

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I have something I have been working on. I don't have an installer for it
so you would have to manually copy files. It also does not run under X yet
so you would have to shut down X to run it from console mode.

Also, I know that people have gotten Ogre and Irrlicht 3D engines to run
on the Beagle board. I don't know if any of those are available as
packages for Ubuntu though. Maybe search for those?

David.

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If you're using Maverick this is not needed anymore because the
drivers are now integrated at the universe/multiverse repos.

At https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/OMAP you can find how to download the
demos and test your board.

Cheers,