HW accel on R128/Xorg 6.7/FBSD-5.3R (was: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD)

[Roland Smith]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 12:37:35PM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> (II) R128(0): Direct rendering enabled

That's beginning to look like it...

> And yet:
> $ glxinfo | grep direct
> direct rendering: No
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

Hmm. Bummer. What kind of framerate does glxgears produce now?

> Grrrr.....

Agreed :-) 

One other thing: check is if LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT isn't set
somewhere in your environment. This causes glxinfo (and other GL apps)
to use software rendering even though accelleration is available.

Roland
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