Experimental options

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Ian Romanick wrote:

> So, there's three separate issues here.
>
> 1. Should the DDX use the DRM to assist with 2D acceleration?

They already do, at least all radeons. Or maybe I misunderstood your 
question ?

>
> 2. How should the server respond to the client's is-direct-rendering-capable 
> request?

At the moment it responds "direct rendering enabled"

>
> 3. What is the name of the client-side direct-rendering driver?

r300_dri.so

The driver is absent - Mesa library recovers cleanly (and prints a message 
about absent 3d driver).

                       best

                         Vladimir Dergachev

>
> The second question is irrelevant.  If the answer can ever be yes, just make 
> it yes and let the client-side libGL sort it out.
>
> For the second question, I believe that there is already an option for that 
> for the R100 & R200 chips.  In either case, this is a good thing to have a 
> non-experimental option for.
>
> For the thrid question would make an acceptable experimental option during 
> development.
>