<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> <div dir="ltr"> <div>I set LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1.But the output I got was the same: <pre wrap="">direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) IGDNG_M GEM 20091221 2009Q4 </pre> Neeraj N.T </div> </div> drago01 wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTi=2CcYhXk-KKTwH2W_ZB7fReXmQ0XVnhDtkkzpt@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Neeraj N T <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:neerajnt@tataelxsi.co.in"><neerajnt@tataelxsi.co.in></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You'd have to set LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 ... indirect rendering does NOT mean software rendering. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>