GLX seesm to work fine on my iMac, although a bit slow. Adding:
Load "glx"
to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 was all it required. As you mention, direct
rendering is not there, so the speed is quite painfully slow unless one
cuts back on the rendered images in the games. I did run
Mesa demos
chromium
tuxracer
gltron
HTH,
Stew Benedict
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Ian White wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> > I'll check all those out and get back to the list. We may not have GLX
> > extensions in X, like some of those messages say, but I'll verify. I'm
> > headed down to TN, so I won't be back online until tomorrow most likely.
>
> What did you find out about GLX? I've got mine enabled and most
> applications are running.. although slowly.
>
> I've enabled it in my config, but glxinfo tells me:
> direct rendering: No
> ...
> OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc.
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4
>
> And during the starting of X it says:
> (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
> (II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0
> ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
> (II) Loading extension GLX
> (II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
> (II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
> (II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.0.3, module version = 1.0.0
> ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1
> (II) LoadModule: "dri"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri
> (II) UnloadModule: "dri"
> (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module does not exist, 0)
>
> The release notes for 4.1.0 claim there is support for DRI under linux/ppc
> with that version.
>
> Ian
>
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