On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 04:06 +0100, Chris Smowton wrote:
> 
> 1. Is there a means for Mesa's side of GLX (that which is built into the 
> app-linked libgl) to determine whether the X server supports AI rendering? 

No.

> It looks as though the glXIsDirect function sort of answers this question, 
> but conflates direct rendering with accelerated indirect rendering?

glXIsDirect only says if the context uses direct or indirect rendering.
It doesn't say anything about acceleration.


>  2. If accelerated indirect rendering is possible, is the DRI driver loaded 
> at all 
> by libgl? If so, is it involved in rendering at all, or can an AIGLX client 
> function without it?

With indirect rendering, libGL only sends GLX protocol to the X server
and doesn't use a DRI driver directly at all.


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