2/3D rendering cards

[Marat N.Afanasyev]

joaoBR wrote:
> Em Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:13:05 -0600 (MDT)
> Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> escreveu:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote:
>>
>>> there are, more or less, three opportunities:
>>>
>>> Nvidia
>>> AMD/Ati
>>> Intel
>>>
>>> Nvidia has really good performance using nvidia legacy driver. You
>>> have pros and cons (I don't want to start a debate about it) of
>>> closed-source. Nvidia using nv has quite poor performance, on Linux
>>> as well.
>>>
>>> AMD/Ati platform has a lack of support on FreeBSD (TTM not fully
>>> implemented or something like that). That means no OpenGL hw
>>> acceleration.
>>
>> Isn't this showing OpenGL hardware acceleration?
>>
>> direct rendering: Yes
>> server glx vendor string: SGI
>> server glx version string: 1.2
>> GLX version: 1.2
>> OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RV730 9498)  TCL
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>> OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2
>> OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
>
> no, that are only the software versions and capabilities
>
> to see what the card does: glxinfo | grep -i renderer
>
> and I guess you will see:
>
> OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
>
> what means xRender in KDE and no 2D or 3D
>
>
nope, he'll see underlined string as I can see:
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RV710 9540) 20090101  TCL

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SY, Marat