Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:13:01 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> On 12/02/12 Camaleón said:
> 
>> Your 3D has to be enabled, otherwise you couldn't run opengl games at
>> all.
> 
> I don't think that's true. I've run these many times in the past and
> they've run purely on my cpu, before direct rendering was enabled.

Then the applications you run didn't require 3D hardware acceleration or 
used software rendering. Every application that required direct rendering 
it fails to load when the VGA driver does not support it.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón