HOWTO: Install OpenGL/Graphic card Benchmark utility - SVN

[Perfect Storm]

Doesn't work in Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 and below
Tested: 6.04 x86, 6.10 x86, 7.04 x86 | 7.10 64-bit, 8.04 64-bit and 8.10 64-bit


NB: Nvidia 9xxx driver support GL_shadow.

A couple a months ago I found this handy little tool which are build for benchmarking your Graphic card. The name of the tool is GLobs.
Before you start, make sure you have universe enable in your sourcelist. There's plenty of threads and howtos throughout the forum to do so.

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Before Installation:

Make sure that your sourcelist is properly set up and your 3D driver for your graphic card is working.
Next step is getting you the right compiling tools and depended libs to compile and making Globs working:

7.04 and previous releases:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion scons
sudo apt-get install libsdl-image1.2-dev libsqlite0-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev python-gnome2-dev python-gobject-dev python-gtk2-dev python2.4-opengl x11proto-gl-dev libgtk2.0-dev python2.4-pysqlite2 freeglut3-dev

7.10, 8.04 and 8.10:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion scons
sudo apt-get install libsdl-image1.2-dev libsqlite0-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev python-gnome2-dev python-gobject-dev python-gtk2-dev python-opengl x11proto-gl-dev libgtk2.0-dev python2.4-pysqlite2 freeglut3-dev

Installation:

Now to the compiling and installing;

cd ~/Desktop
svn co https://globs.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/globs/globs/trunk globs
svn co https://globs.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/globs/benchmarks/trunk globs/src/benchmarks
cd globs
scons
sudo scons install prefix=/usr
sudo python patchdir.py prefix=/usr
sudo python setup.py install --prefix=/usr

Last step is making an application launcher;

sudo rm -f /usr/share/applications/globs.desktop
sudo nano /usr/share/applications/globs.desktop

add the following text:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=GL O.B.S.
Comment=OpenGL Benchmark Utility
Exec=globs %F
Icon=/usr/share/globs/pixmaps/globs.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;System;


Save and exit.
[ctrl]+[o] | [ctrl]+[x]

You can now start GLobs in the Application tab ---> System Tools or type globs in the terminal.

[pestypest]

A couple a months ago I found this handy little tool which are build for benchmarking your Graphic card. The name of the tool is GLobs.
Before you start, make sure you have universe enable in your sourcelist. There's plenty of threads and howtos throughout the forum to do so.

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1) Download GLobs to your Desktop. You can download it here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=161613

2) Next step is getting you the right compiling tools and depended libs to compile and making Globs working:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libsqlite0-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev python-gnome2-dev python-gobject-dev python-gtk2-dev python2.4-opengl scons x11proto-gl-dev libgtk2.0-dev freeglut3-dev

3) Now to the compiling and installing:

cd Desktop
tar zxvf globs-0.1.tar.gz
cd globs-0.1
scons
sudo scons install prefix=/usr
sudo python patchdir.py prefix=/usr
sudo python setup.py install --prefix=/usr

4) Last step is making an application launcher:

sudo rm -f /usr/share/applications/globs.desktop
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/globs.desktop

add:



Save an exit.
You can now start GLobs in the Application tab ---> System Tools
or type globs in the terminal.


This howto is also tested on Dapper.

I am gettting this error message
Can anyone help?

Attempting to start 3ddesktop server.
3ddeskd: glXIsDirect failed, no Direct Rendering possible!
3ddeskd: Please configure hardware acceleration. Exiting.
Daemon started. Run 3ddesk to activate.
Server not found after waiting 5 seconds.
Could not find server.
Try starting manually (3ddeskd)

got this error

jason@jason:~/Desktop/globs-0.1$ scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
sh: sdl-config: command not found
sh: sdl-config: command not found
:: Checking for libs
Checking for SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) in C library libSDL... no
Did not find libSDL, exiting!


and this

scons: Reading SConscript files ...
sh: sdl-config: command not found
sh: sdl-config: command not found
:: Checking for libs
Checking for SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) in C library libSDL... no
Did not find libSDL, exiting!

[Perfect Storm]

Try install the devel package of libsdl.

[pestypest]

Try install the devel package of libsdl.

tried.

jason@jason:~/Desktop/globs-0.1$ scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
:: Checking for libs
Checking for SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) in C library libSDL... no
Did not find libSDL, exiting!

[Ramses de Norre]

python-gobject-dev is not available from breezy repo's.

[davygravy]

Followed all the recommendations/directions here and at the main GL OBS site - still, I got compile errors when I ran scons.

My post/inquiry/plea for help is here GL OBS on Ubuntu PPC?.

Anyhelp would be appreciated. You can pm me.

thanks,

davygravy

[davygravy]

bump...anyone?

[Perfect Storm]

Sorry don't know. It might be PPC related somehow.
But you might take contact with the developer of Globs to straighten out the errors.

[fatty_chris]

When I try to get the globs installed, I get this message:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package python-gobject-dev

I get that after I input this:
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-gnome2-dev python-gtk2-dev python-gobject-dev libwnck-dev libxres-dev x11proto-resource-dev libgnome-desktop-dev libstartup-notification0-dev automake1.8 python-gobject

How do I get python-gobject-dev installed?

[Perfect Storm]

It might be called something else on breezy, because I've manage to install it on breezy but I've moved to dapper and wrote the howto through there. A mistake of mine.

But you could try and see if the dapper version of the file works or you ran into dependency problems: http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/cgi-...=all&type=main