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mmccaskill

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From: NC

Registered: 2005-02-21

Posts: 165

Xorg radeon glxinfo question

Since fglrx desupported my card I'm using the Xorg driver. glxinfo reports

name of display: :0.0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
.....
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.5.1

If I am not mistaken this is software OpenGL and not hardware. Is it possible to have hardware OpenGL with the Xorg radeon driver?

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: Xorg radeon glxinfo question

If I am not mistaken this is software OpenGL and not hardware. Is it possible to have hardware OpenGL with the Xorg radeon driver?

You are mistaken - the important line from your output is:

direct rendering: Yes

That means you have hardware accel.  The OpenGL version string is Mesa because you're using libgl-dri, which is Mesa's direct-rendering library.

mmccaskill

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Registered: 2005-02-21

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Re: Xorg radeon glxinfo question

Ah thank you very much. I am corrected.

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

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Re: Xorg radeon glxinfo question

OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20060602 AGP 4x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.5.1

The driver is shipped with mesa 6.5.1.

BTW:

direct rendering: No
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20060602 AGP 4x x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.3 Mesa 6.5.1)

Though it says direct rendering: no, it is accelerated: AIGLX is used in this case.