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Michel Dänzer
michel at daenzer.net
Sat Dec 11 08:29:44 PST 2004
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 11:19 -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> >> The reason this is useful is that such trick greatly accelerates 3d on
> > ^ 2? :)
> >> large resolution screens as 2d driver can also use DRM driver and this
> >> works perfectly well. This also facilitates work on 3d driver.
> >>
> >> The 2d speedup is quite considerable, however one would expect all GL
> >> apps to break because of this, as even software rendering won't work.
> >
> > libGL should fall back to GLX when the *_dri.so isn't around. Is it
> > not? Even so, it would be nice to make some sort of change to make
>
> I don't think it does. At the very least this was broken for me - or maybe
> I screwed up something else.
It should definitely fall back to indirect rendering, just like when
there's a problem loading any of the existing 3D drivers.
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