Question / Help Is OBS ever going to work on ubuntu with this GPU??

[The Going Dutch]

Hello Guys,

I'am a newbee when it comes to linux..
OBS is not working on my old laptop and I think it is because of the build in GPU

jan@jan-Aspire-5336:~$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16
OpenGL ES profile extensions:
jan@jan-Aspire-5336:~$


Maybe I should update the openGL drivers (mesa) (don't know yet how..) or should I just give up because this laptop is too old?

thanks in advance

kind Regards,

Jan

 

[Lain]

Yea, you might have to get the most bleeding edge of mesa to be able to do it. Those particular GPUs aren't really recommended for streaming, but they can be made t work at somewhat.

 

[ubuntuaddicted]

if you're in an ubuntu derivative and you want to see if your gpu will with obs than install the xorg-edgers ppa. you can do that with the following command

http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/xorg-edgers

*****************DISCLAIMER***************
I am not responsible for your desktop not launching but these command will upgrade your version of Xorg so you can get an updated mesa graphics stack as well.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade