hi derek On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 00:01 +0100, derek holzer wrote: > Hi Roman, > > I just wanted to get that out of the way. Just because glxgears runs > doesn't mean that OpenGL is working and you actually have direct > rendering.
i see... > Sorry I can't help more, since I've never gotten ATI cards to > work properly with Linux. Glad at least those work for you! ;-) this doesn't sound very promising.... :-/ for my part, i only figured it out how to setup with the help of detailed descriptions from the ubuntu-wikis and -forums. since this topic seems not to be the easiest one, i would even be glad to hear some succes stories: is anyone from that list using gem successfully on a system with installed fglrx-driver? i really hope, there are many gem-on-linux users around, so there is still hope :-) roman > best, > d. > > Roman Haefeli wrote: > > hi derek > > > > as i mentioned in the original post, i *have* accelerated graphics on my > > computer, so glxinfo tells me: > > > > 'direct rendering: Yes' > > > > the problem i have in this specific case, that i suspect gem not to make > > use of the hardware acceleration, for whatever reason. i don't know of > > reliable way to check that yet, though (besides noticing that it is much > > slower than i would expect). > > > > roman > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 23:03 +0100, derek holzer wrote: > >> Hi Roman, > >> > >> Getting accelerated graphics from ATI cards on Linux has always been > >> problematic with or without GEM. > >> > >> What does "glxinfo" (or "fgl_glxinfo"???) tell you? Look for the line > >> which says: > >> > >> direct rendering: > >> > >> which should tell you "Yes" or "No". > >> > >> best, > >> d. > >> > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de > > > > ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list