type: glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" on the console. it'll tell you Yes or No on DRI.
glxinfo | grep -i dri will tell you the driver On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 00:32 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote: > hi derek > > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 00:01 +0100, derek holzer wrote: > > Hi Roman, > > > > I just wanted to get that out of the way. Just because glxgears runs > > doesn't mean that OpenGL is working and you actually have direct > > rendering. > > i see... > > > Sorry I can't help more, since I've never gotten ATI cards to > > work properly with Linux. Glad at least those work for you! ;-) > > this doesn't sound very promising.... :-/ for my part, i only figured it > out how to setup with the help of detailed descriptions from the > ubuntu-wikis and -forums. > > since this topic seems not to be the easiest one, i would even be glad > to hear some succes stories: > > is anyone from that list using gem successfully on a system with > installed fglrx-driver? i really hope, there are many gem-on-linux users > around, so there is still hope :-) > > roman > > > > > best, > > d. > > > > Roman Haefeli wrote: > > > hi derek > > > > > > as i mentioned in the original post, i *have* accelerated graphics on my > > > computer, so glxinfo tells me: > > > > > > 'direct rendering: Yes' > > > > > > the problem i have in this specific case, that i suspect gem not to make > > > use of the hardware acceleration, for whatever reason. i don't know of > > > reliable way to check that yet, though (besides noticing that it is much > > > slower than i would expect). > > > > > > roman > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 23:03 +0100, derek holzer wrote: > > >> Hi Roman, > > >> > > >> Getting accelerated graphics from ATI cards on Linux has always been > > >> problematic with or without GEM. > > >> > > >> What does "glxinfo" (or "fgl_glxinfo"???) tell you? Look for the line > > >> which says: > > >> > > >> direct rendering: > > >> > > >> which should tell you "Yes" or "No". > > >> > > >> best, > > >> d. > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > > Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: > http://mail.yahoo.de > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- Mechanize something idiosyncratic. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
