type: glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" on the console. it'll tell you Yes or No on DRI.
glxinfo | grep -i dri will tell you the driver
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 00:32 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
hi derek
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 00:01 +0100, derek holzer wrote:
Hi Roman,
I just wanted to get that out of the way. Just because glxgears runs doesn't mean that OpenGL is working and you actually have direct rendering.
i see...
Sorry I can't help more, since I've never gotten ATI cards to work properly with Linux. Glad at least those work for you! ;-)
this doesn't sound very promising.... :-/ for my part, i only figured it out how to setup with the help of detailed descriptions from the ubuntu-wikis and -forums.
since this topic seems not to be the easiest one, i would even be glad to hear some succes stories:
is anyone from that list using gem successfully on a system with installed fglrx-driver? i really hope, there are many gem-on-linux users around, so there is still hope :-)
roman
best, d.
Roman Haefeli wrote:
hi derek
as i mentioned in the original post, i *have* accelerated graphics on my computer, so glxinfo tells me:
'direct rendering: Yes'
the problem i have in this specific case, that i suspect gem not to make use of the hardware acceleration, for whatever reason. i don't know of reliable way to check that yet, though (besides noticing that it is much slower than i would expect).
roman
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 23:03 +0100, derek holzer wrote:
Hi Roman,
Getting accelerated graphics from ATI cards on Linux has always been problematic with or without GEM.
What does "glxinfo" (or "fgl_glxinfo"???) tell you? Look for the line which says:
direct rendering:
which should tell you "Yes" or "No".
best, d.
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