Re: OpenGL & Direct Rendering for ATI

2009-12-30 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:49:53 -0800 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:19, T o n g wrote: ... > >  Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". > > > >  $ glxinfo > >  -bash: glxinfo: command not found > > glxinfo is provided by the mesa-utils package. Installing mesa-utils

Re: OpenGL & Direct Rendering for ATI

2009-12-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:19, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > For ATI cards, is it possible to have direct rendering with OpenGL under > the open source drivers? Generally, yes, although it depends on the card and what versions of the kernel, X, and Mesa you are using. Newer cards need newer versions,

OpenGL & Direct Rendering for ATI

2009-12-30 Thread T o n g
Hi, For ATI cards, is it possible to have direct rendering with OpenGL under the open source drivers? Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". $ glxinfo -bash: glxinfo: command not found Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http

Re: OpenGL direct rendering

2006-02-12 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 12:36:48AM -0500, cga wrote: > Alex Nordstrom wrote: > > >Monday, 13 February 2006 10:06, cga wrote: > > > >>But thanks anyway for correcting me re: the r128 driver.. of course > >>since the OP appears to be using xfree86 I'm not sure why direct > >>rendering is not enabled

Re: OpenGL direct rendering

2006-02-12 Thread cga
Alex Nordstrom wrote: Monday, 13 February 2006 10:06, cga wrote: But thanks anyway for correcting me re: the r128 driver.. of course since the OP appears to be using xfree86 I'm not sure why direct rendering is not enabled out-of-the-box.. Experience tells me that DRI for some of thes

Re: OpenGL direct rendering

2006-02-12 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Monday, 13 February 2006 10:06, cga wrote: > But thanks anyway for correcting me re: the r128 driver.. of course > since the OP appears to be using xfree86 I'm not sure why direct > rendering is not enabled out-of-the-box.. Experience tells me that DRI for some of these cards is only enabled at l

Re: OpenGL direct rendering

2006-02-12 Thread cga
Tim Connors wrote: cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:59:39 -0500: Brent Bailey wrote: ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X I seem to have two xservers on my system (apt-cache showpkg xserver-XFree86): 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 dunno about

Re: OpenGL direct rendering

2006-02-12 Thread Tim Connors
cga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:59:39 -0500: > Brent Bailey wrote: > >ATI Technologies, Inc. 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X > > > >I seem to have two xservers on my system (apt-cache showpkg xserver-XFree86): > > > >6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 > >4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 > > > dunno about the current x

Re: OpenGL direct rendering

2006-02-12 Thread cga
Brent Bailey wrote: I love my Debian system, but the only complaint I have is with the time it takes for the graphics to appear. I can see the background get repainted everytime I log in. I think that this might be related to the video driver not having direct rendering enabled. I doubt it. S

OpenGL direct rendering

2006-02-12 Thread Brent Bailey
(glxinfo | grep render), I get the following: direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect Why am I not getting OpenGL direct rendering? Do I have to install any other kernel modules? The only other thing I can think of is that I didn't manually set the video cards memor