Re: How do tell if X is using acceleration...?...

[Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:20:42AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> Is it running accelerated? how can this be determined..?

Run "glxinfo" and look for the "OpenGL renderer string" field.  If it
says "indirect", you're using software.  If it says "voodoo", you're
using hardware.

For Voodoo cards, you also need to install the libglide3 package to
get hardware acceleration. (This isn't well documented, IMO.)

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u