On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Ekhlas Sonu wrote: > Thanks for your prompt reply. I am not very familiar with the drivers on > linux so I hope I get a little more guidance from you. > > I ran gl-info as you said and here is the output: > > [r...@olympus bin]# gl-info > > GL_VENDOR = "Brian Paul" > > GL_RENDERER = "Mesa X11" > > GL_VERSION = "2.1 Mesa 7.7"
> I can't make head to tail of it except that the GL library used is > Mesa. Now to install Nvidia drivers do I need to uninstall Mesa first? Sorry, AFAIK that means no acceleration. The output from glxinfo (if you have it - it is not part of FlightGear) is easier to parse - you only need to look at the first few lines: name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation server glx version string: 1.4 If it says direct "rendering: No" you have no hardware acceleration. For the NVIDIA driver go to http://www.nvidia.com and download the appropriate one for your card. It installs on top of Mesa. Your linux distribution might also have the NVIDIA driver as a package, but mine (Debian) doesn't (or the version is too old). For me the NVIDIA driver works fine - but I do need to reinstall it if my package system updates the mesa package or if I change to a new kernel. Cheers, Anders -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Gidenstam WWW: http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
