Bug#417601: x11r6: On startup, X11 reports that my G450 is not DRI capable.
Dale E. Edmons wrote:
> The frame rate is now:
You shouldn't use glxgears as a benchmark, it really isn't one
unfortunately. If you want to know whether DRI works, glxinfo will tell
you (look for "direct rendering: Yes" on line #4).
> The difference was that earlier I had run glxgears as
> root!
It might just be a problem with the permissions of /dev/dri/card0.
xserver-xorg-core sets it to mode 666 now, while you needed a DRI
section in xorg.conf to do that earlier.
> I believe, is not dual-monitor and has very washed out
> colors and blender runs! The version I was running is
> marked "no-dri". This one the dual-monitor works correctly,
> but has no DRI/GLX. I can use this until my second
> monitor gets back from repair.
Dual-head with DRI might not be that easy to get. We have bug #362997
about that. Maybe the next mga driver with randr-1.2 support will help.
Brice
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