Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Jonathan Brooks <jonathan.brooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Silviu,

Thanks for the info - direct rendering = YES!
So I guess that glxgears will always load the CPU, even if the Nvidia 
drivers are installed correctly? Or is there something else that I need 
to check? E.g. hardware accelerated OpenGL?

Cheers, Jon.



Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
> On Monday 27 June 2005 16:11, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
>
>
> > What is the definitive test for whether things are installed and running
> > correctly? How do I "switch" the system such that it uses NVidia's glx
> > rather than Mesa/freeglut?
>
>
> KDE Lauch/System/Monitor/OpenGL  or corresponding menu entry in Gnome.
>
> or run "glxinfo" as root and see if you have "direct rendering Yes"

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