DXX-Rebirth (Descent & Descent II) on Pandaboard

[Dan MacDonald]

Ever since the release of the new OMAP PVR drivers for Precise I've been looking for good apps or games that might take advantage of our hardware OGLES acceleration and/or make good use of the NEON extensions.

There aren't many Linux games anyway (in comparison to Windows) but even fewer are open source AND have support for GLES. I still haven't got any ES 2 games to run but today I was very happy to get both d1x (Descent) and d2x (Descent II) running beautifully with OGLES 1 GFX accel, sound (via my external USB audio device) and USB joystick/pad support! It has instantly become the most impressive game I can run on my Pandaboard and its the first time I've ever compiled anything for GLES. I give a few more details about it on the dxx-rebirth forums:

http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/frm/index.php/topic,1500.0.html

What is of most importance to this list and esp. Mr Clark is that both d1x and d2x just gave me a black screen if I run them without any switches. Instead, you have to run them with the -window switch to start them windowed, then you can use the GFX options menu to enable fullscreen afterwards and that works.

As I say in that above thread, I'd like to get Quake 3 (or even one of the newer Wolfenstein games) running on the Panda complete with GLES 2 accel. If you check out the previously linked thread I have started on the dxx-rebirth forums I have detailed my progress so far with try to compile Githubs Q3 for RPi .

Has anyone on this list already got Quake 3 running with GLES 2 support under Precise? How did you do it?

[Nicolas Dechesne]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Dan MacDonald <all...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There aren't many Linux games anyway (in comparison to Windows) but even
> fewer are open source AND have support for GLES. I still haven't got any ES
> 2 games to run but today I was very happy to get both d1x (Descent) and d2x
> (Descent II) running beautifully with OGLES 1 GFX accel, sound (via my
> external USB audio device) and USB joystick/pad support!

awesome!

> It has instantly
> become the most impressive game I can run on my Pandaboard and its the first
> time I've ever compiled anything for GLES. I give a few more details about
> it on the dxx-rebirth forums:
>
> http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/frm/index.php/topic,1500.0.html
>
> What is of most importance to this list and esp. Mr Clark is that both d1x
> and d2x just gave me a black screen if I run them without any switches.
> Instead, you have to run them with the -window switch to start them
> windowed, then you can use the GFX options menu to enable fullscreen
> afterwards and that works.
>
> As I say in that above thread, I'd like to get Quake 3 (or even one of the
> newer Wolfenstein games) running on the Panda complete with GLES 2 accel. If
> you check out the previously linked thread I have started on the dxx-rebirth
> forums I have detailed my progress so far with try to compile Githubs Q3 for
> RPi .

I, too, would like to see Quake... please keep us posted!

[Dan MacDonald]

Hi ndec!

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Nicolas Dechesne <nde...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Dan MacDonald <all...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There aren't many Linux games anyway (in comparison to Windows) but even
> fewer are open source AND have support for GLES. I still haven't got any ES
> 2 games to run but today I was very happy to get both d1x (Descent) and d2x
> (Descent II) running beautifully with OGLES 1 GFX accel, sound (via my
> external USB audio device) and USB joystick/pad support!

awesome!

Yay!

At least there is ONE other person interested in Panda gaming on here! Great!
 

> It has instantly
> become the most impressive game I can run on my Pandaboard and its the first
> time I've ever compiled anything for GLES. I give a few more details about
> it on the dxx-rebirth forums:
>
> http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/frm/index.php/topic,1500.0.html
>
> What is of most importance to this list and esp. Mr Clark is that both d1x
> and d2x just gave me a black screen if I run them without any switches.
> Instead, you have to run them with the -window switch to start them
> windowed, then you can use the GFX options menu to enable fullscreen
> afterwards and that works.
>
> As I say in that above thread, I'd like to get Quake 3 (or even one of the
> newer Wolfenstein games) running on the Panda complete with GLES 2 accel. If
> you check out the previously linked thread I have started on the dxx-rebirth
> forums I have detailed my progress so far with try to compile Githubs Q3 for
> RPi .

I, too, would like to see Quake... please keep us posted!

I'm getting closer and I'd love to have some help! I'm keeping track of my Quake GLES on Panda progress here:

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?72570-DarkPlaces-GLES-on-Pandaboard