bugGnash - The GNU Flash player - Bugs: bug #16750, requires non-free video drivers

 
 

bug #16750: requires non-free video drivers

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Submitted on:  Sun 04 Jun 2006 07:43:57 PM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Release: NoneStatus: None
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Wed 07 Jun 2006 03:03:18 PM UTC, comment #2:

libSDL uses OpenGL (so does XGL), and Gnash supports Cairo as well. OpenGL is implemented by LibMesa, which is free, and I'm not running with any proprietary drivers on my system... OpenGL runs on the Mac too, so I'm not sure what your problem is, but this isn't a bug report, it's a feature request.

Rob Savoye <rsavoye>
Project Administrator
Wed 07 Jun 2006 09:27:48 AM UTC, comment #1:

At least on X11 you don't need non-open drivers to have OpenGL. It's not 'Direct Rendering', but XGL could work (extremly slow).

Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik>
Sun 04 Jun 2006 07:43:57 PM UTC, original submission:

Supposedly this is a GNU project.

Requiring OpenGL worse than requiring Java or Motif. We have
at least a decent chance of replacing Java and Motif now, but
OpenGL is a problem without an end in sight.

You're also needlessly excluding older systems. There is no
good reason why SWF files should not run on every Mac G4, but
this requirement does exactly that.

Try using libsdl instead.

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