2/3D rendering cards

[joaoBR]

Em Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:13:05 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> escreveu:

> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Luca Pizzamiglio wrote:
> 
> > there are, more or less, three opportunities:
> >
> > Nvidia
> > AMD/Ati
> > Intel
> >
> > Nvidia has really good performance using nvidia legacy driver. You
> > have pros and cons (I don't want to start a debate about it) of
> > closed-source. Nvidia using nv has quite poor performance, on Linux
> > as well.
> >
> > AMD/Ati platform has a lack of support on FreeBSD (TTM not fully
> > implemented or something like that). That means no OpenGL hw
> > acceleration.
> 
> Isn't this showing OpenGL hardware acceleration?
> 
> direct rendering: Yes
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> server glx version string: 1.2
> GLX version: 1.2
> OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R600 (RV730 9498)  TCL
> OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.11.2
> OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

no, that are only the software versions and capabilities

to see what the card does: glxinfo | grep -i renderer

and I guess you will see:

OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer

what means xRender in KDE and no 2D or 3D


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João Martins (JoaoBR)

Infomatik Development Team
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