On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:30:59 +0200 Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alessandro Doro <ordo.ad@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:56:33PM +0200, Andrea Crotti wrote: > >> Since I've read somewhere that is not a good measure, how do I > >> know for sure if 3d is activated or not? > > > > glxinfo |grep "^direct rendering: " > > I already looked at that and I get "Yes"! > But I can't believe it's so crappy to almost stop in tuxkart and > sometimes being slow in opengl screensavers... > direct rendering is always "Yes" these days, because mesa includes a software render which makes you CPU do all the work. try: glxinfo | grep "^OpenGL" here's what I get on my Intel Laptop: OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM GEM 20100328 2010Q1 x86/MMX/SSE2 OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 7.8.2 and here's what you SHOULDN'T get (from a VM with cirrus-vga): jinks@edultsp:~$ glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: Yes jinks@edultsp:~$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 (Note, that it still supports direct rendering, but uses the Software Rasterizer.)
