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Article #167Re: OpenGL on linux, SGI 1600SW w/ NumberNine Revolution IV, help
From: Harri J Haataja
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:24
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 07:24
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Matthew Holmy wrote: >Quake III is unusably slow and choppy. > >I am running the Number Nine Revolution IV card with an SGI 1600SW flat >panel on Linux kernel 2.4.3-12smp with 2x700Mhz intel. XFree86-4 w/i128 >server. > >gnome looks great but I can't seem to get this OpenGL rendering. > >/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 looks correct and has the following "Module" >Section: > >Load "dbe" >Load "GLcore" >Load "dri" >Load "glx" > >however glxinfo reveals "direct rendering: No". I have pasted the >output of glxinfo below. > >Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. It might be easiest to look at the startup messages for the X server and what it says about DRI. RH dumps these to /var/log/X* btw, maybe your setup does too given the connection between RH and SGI Linux systems. -- Seagoon: Will my aeroplane need a hangar? Crun: It'd lose its shape hanging on a nail, you know. -- T.A.Milligan & L.Stephens 10 Jan 1957
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