On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:11:38PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > For indirect rendering, the application talks to the X server via the > GLX protocol (there's no library talking to the hardware in this case). > The server decodes the GLX requests and renders them appropriately > (which means either via a software renderer, or a hw accelerated one). > > I'm not sure about the *current* DRI implementation (which is a shame, > because *this* is the counter argument), but I *think* there's no hw > acceleration for the indirect case. This means, the dri modules have > to be shipped with the X server package, not with the GL library > package. There isn't, at present, any such thing as indirect renderect via a GLX pipeline; but a few weeks ago there was a thread on one of the XFree86 mailing lists about it, and somebody knowledgeable (Mark Vojkovich, maybe) said it shouldn't be hard to do. The bad news is, as I recall no one seemed interested in doing it. -- G. Branden Robinson | I must despise the world which does not Debian GNU/Linux | know that music is a higher revelation branden@debian.org | than all wisdom and philosophy. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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