On 04/28 07:32, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On 04/28/2017 02:59 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > On 2017-04-28 10:10, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > 
> > > No. I meant you can't enable them *all* globally, meaning opengl,
> > > gles, egl, etc. It's kind of the same situation as with GUI toolkits,
> > > you can't enable them all globally because some packages support more
> > > than one that you have to choose at compile time.
> > 
> > I think we need to spell out what you mean by this:
> > 
> > > > > if any of them have egl or gles and not opengl then enable it.
> > 
> > by "not having opengl" do you mean that it's not in the package's IUSE
> > at all, or that it is disabled?
> 
> On the sentence prior to the one you quoted I advised the OP to enable
> opengl globally. Therefore, if a package has it then it is already enabled.
> So obviously I meant if it doesn't have it at all.
> 
> > by "enable *it*" do you mean enable opengl, or enable those other flags?
> 
> For the same reason stated above I can only be refering to those other
> flags. Those are the flags that control GL acceleration. If you want your
> system to use your GPU as much as possible then you need to enable at least
> one of them on all the packages that support it. If a package has more than
> one it's between you and portage which one you choose because some packages
> depend on one or the other. So I find it easier to enable opengl first and
> then work through the conflicts to enable the others as much as possible.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Fernando Rodriguez
> 

Hi,

before changing my system I took a look at
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Hardware_3D_acceleration_guide

Down the page there is a test, whohc on my system reports:
glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes
    GL_NV_path_rendering, GL_NV_pixel_data_range, GL_NV_point_sprite, 
    GL_NV_path_rendering, GL_NV_pixel_data_range, GL_NV_point_sprite, 
    GL_NV_packed_float_linear, GL_NV_path_rendering, 


For me it reads like: Yes, you have hardware accelerated rendering.

Or did I miss something...?

Cheers
Meino




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