[ltp] Re: Questions about Mandriva Limited 2005 - DRI?

[Mats Keil]

Hi Jeff,

thanks.  Could you do a "glxinfo" at the prompt? Just to be sure - among other
things a line should appear which says "direct rendering: Yes" (everything
fine) or "direct rendering: No" (i.e. hardware acceleration does not work).

Would be nice to hear from you, and thanks again,

   mMtthias

  

--- Jeff <thinkpad@sirveiss.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Mats Keil wrote:
> 
> > Dear Jeff,
> >
> > Thanks for your mini-review of Mandrake/Mandriva lmt ed.  I'm still using
> Mndk
> > 10.0 on my R40 (ATI 7500), and I'm not sure whether to update or not, since
> > most things work fine (except for suspend to disk)...forgive me if it is a
> > stupid question - but does hardware acceleration work?
> >
> > Matthias
> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> If you're referring to graphics acceleration, I believe it works great
> since both glxgears and fgl_glxgears work great after installing ATI's
> graphics driver.  If this isn't what you're referring to, let me know
> how to test it and I'll give it a try.
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> -Jeff
> 

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