Linux-programs can't do direct rendering?..

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:42:16 -0500
Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I'm seeing this on the two different computers already. Although
> native FreeBSD programs can do direct rendering, the Linux ones (such
> as google-earth) can not.
> 
> One of the machines is FreeBSD-6.3-PRERELEASE/amd64 with a Radeon
> card. The other -- FreeBSD-7.0-PRERELEASE/i386 with an NVidia.
> 
> On both systems the native glxinfo (installed by the the
> graphics/mesa-demos) reports direct rendering as available:
> 
> 	% glxinfo | grep direct
> 	direct rendering: Yes
> 
> on both, however, the Linux version (from linux_dri-7.0) says No:
> 
> 	% /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/bin/glxinfo | grep direct
> 	direct rendering: No

How did you install linux_dri on amd64?  Last time I tried, it reported
back that it was unsupported on amd64.  

As for the i386 machine...  If you installed linux_dri after installing
the nvidia drivers, you overwrote the libGL and libGLcore files from
the nvidia drivers, so it's not surprising direct rendering doesn't
work there.

Adam