How to enable software rendering via X server

Neeraj N T neerajnt at tataelxsi.co.in
Mon Feb 14 23:15:50 PST 2011


I set LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1.But the output I got was the same:

direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGDNG_M GEM 20091221 2009Q4




Neeraj N.T

drago01 wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Neeraj N T <neerajnt at tataelxsi.co.in> wrote:
>   
>> Hi All,
>> By using the environment variable LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 my glxinfo showed
>> the following:
>>
>> direct rendering: No
>> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGDNG_M GEM 20091221 2009Q4
>>
>> My research showed that the Xclient is actually using indirect rendering
>> where as the Xserver is inturn using the DRI path.
>> Instead of the above how can I get the below output, so that I can ensure
>> graphics flow is using software rendering ?
>>
>> direct rendering: Yes
>> OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
>>     
>
> You'd have to set LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1  ... indirect rendering does
> NOT mean software rendering.
>
>   


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