Intel Chipset 945 - OpenGL 1.4

[Mohamed Selim]

Hello Kivy-Users,

 

I'm having a serious issue with the running kivy on a machine that has Intel Chipset 945 express graphics card

 

I got segmentation fault, I then donwloaded the latest driver and I got a segmentation fault again

 

here is the log:

[INFO              ] Kivy v1.0.9
[INFO              ] Factory: 99 symbols loaded
[INFO              ] Text: using <pygame> as text provider
[INFO              ] Window: using <pygame> as window provider
[INFO              ] GL: OpenGL version <1.4.0 - Build 8.14.10.1930>
[INFO              ] GL: OpenGL vendor <Intel>
[INFO              ] GL: OpenGL renderer <Intel 945GM>

 

Is there any way to run kivy on that machine? Can I have OpenGL 2.0 ??

https://github.com/kivy/kivy/issues/328

 

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Best Regards,

Mohamed Selim

[Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Mohamed Selim <mohamed...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can I have OpenGL 2.0 ??

No.

The last Intel OpenGL support for that chipset is 1.4 and they won't release any further updates.

I've tried this before you...

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[Mohamed Selim]

Thanks Mohamed for your fast reply :)

Is it possible to get Kivy running using opengl 1.4???

Best Regards,
Mohamed Selim

[Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mohamed Selim <mohamed...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it possible to get Kivy running using opengl 1.4???

On that machine, I have only tried PyMT which doesn't use a lot OpenGL 2 specific things (shaders and al.)

Most things work.

I don't know whether Kivy has a fallback support for old OpenGL chipsets.

But even if, you'll lose really a lot of options.

I suggest you to buy a good gfx card or change the computer instead.

(even newer intel chips that support OpenGL 2 have limitations in the number of maximum shaders to be used etc.)

it's sad, but this seems to be the truth.

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[Mathieu Virbel]

Hi,

No, kivy have absolutly no support for < 2.0. Our whole graphics engine
is based on shaders, introduced in OpenGL 2.0.
(Note that OpenGL 1.4 have been released the 24 July 2002, almost 10
years old.)

We know that intel have still old chipset that suck, but we'll not put
time to support it, we are trying to get the future working, not the
past. ^^

Mathieu

[Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Mathieu Virbel <txp...@gmail.com> wrote:

We know that intel have still old chipset that suck, but we'll not put time to support it, we are trying to get the future working, not the past. ^^

+1

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[prasannatsm]

I am also having a i945 chip. Except for occlusion feature it supports most of the OpenGL 2.0 stuff (see the output of glxinfo command). The demo that I tried works great.