[Haskell-cafe] HOpenGL and freeglut rendering problems

[Jeff Zaroyko]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Eitan Goldshtrom
<thesourceofx at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. I'm new to this mailing list, so I apologize if this question is
> inappropriate for this list, but I've been looking for a solution to this
> problem for weeks and I've had no luck.
>
> I am trying to write a program with HOpenGL and freeglut, but I can't seem
> to get it to render. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 on a DELL 1555 with an ATI
> Radeon HD 4500. Right now my program just creates a window with a black
> background. However, when I try to run the program I get the following
> error:
>
> "Unable to create direct context rendering for window 'IGL'
> This may hurt performance."
>
> I've read that this is because of the fglrx driver. The driver uses indirect
> rendering for OpenGL, but freeglut requires direct rendering? Is there a way
> to force freeglut to function with indirect rendering?
>
> -Eitan

If I'm not mistaken, lack of "Direct Rendering: yes" in the output of
`glxinfo` means you do not have hardware acceleration because fglrx is
not installed correctly.  Suggest you seek help from your distro's
support forum.

Jeff