Re: openGL question

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

High,

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
<snip>
> >
> > The direct rendering is set to No. Does this mean that my video card
> > handles most of it, or just the contrary?
>
> - direct rendering: No
> - OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> These two mean that the CPU handles everything.
>
> What version of X are you running (try 'xdpyinfo |head' , it should give
> you the XFree86 version) ? In my experience, hardware opengl support is
> easier to get going with versions 4.0 and higher.
>
> Frank
>
XFree86 version: 4.1.0.1

I checked xfree's website and it says that there is support for permedia 2
chipsets.

http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.01/Status3.html#3



Greetz,
Sebastiaan