[vox-tech] GL chunking problems

[Peter Jay Salzman]

begin R. Douglas Barbieri <doug@dooglio.net> 
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:24:53PM -0700, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:03:31PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> [snip]
> > > i'd need more information (based on the stuff i just wrote above) to
> > > diagnose further.
> > 
> > Would you like me to send you the output of glxinfo offline? What other
> > information do you need?
> 
> Woah! I just checked my glxinfo output. Here are a couple of lines:
> 
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0  screen: 0
> direct rendering: No
> server glx vendor string: Brian Paul
> server glx version string: 1.4 Mesa 5.0.1
> [...]
> 
> So, I bet it shouldn't say "direct rendering: No", huh?
> 
> Looking at /var/log/XFree86.0.log, I find the following line:
> 
> (==) TDFX(0): Direct rendering enabled
> 
> So, what gives?

i believe it means that the kernel has DRI support, but glxinfo isn't
finding the information it wants to see from making calls to mesa.  i
believe it's another indication that something is wrong with the
libraries.

pete

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