I'm running the KDE spin of Fedora 18 on an AMD 8-core processor, with ATI Radeon HD 7700. I installed (via rpmforge/yum) the proprietary graphics driver.
Now, when I try to run (for example) glxgears, the window comes up, but is initially black. If I grab the lower right corner of the window and play around with resizing the window, eventually the animation kicks in and the gears start to rotate. Sometimes after getting one gears window rotating, starting a second glxgears window will come up correct - the gears are rotating immediately.
I wanted to capture video of this bug, but yet another weird thing happened: When I installed and ran recordmydesktop, then every time I started glxgears it would work correctly!
I ran the AMD-provided configuration tool for X11, and have an updated file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d.
Unigene heaven indicates (in full screen mode) that the graphics card is indeed functioning.
Any thoughts or suggestions on why the OpenGL windows usually don't start out animating??
Thanks a million,
Greg
Now, when I try to run (for example) glxgears, the window comes up, but is initially black. If I grab the lower right corner of the window and play around with resizing the window, eventually the animation kicks in and the gears start to rotate. Sometimes after getting one gears window rotating, starting a second glxgears window will come up correct - the gears are rotating immediately.
I wanted to capture video of this bug, but yet another weird thing happened: When I installed and ran recordmydesktop, then every time I started glxgears it would work correctly!
I ran the AMD-provided configuration tool for X11, and have an updated file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d.
Unigene heaven indicates (in full screen mode) that the graphics card is indeed functioning.
Any thoughts or suggestions on why the OpenGL windows usually don't start out animating??
Thanks a million,
Greg