DRM problem with X-terminal

[Simo Kauppi]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 02:49:24PM -0500, Felix Kühling wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 03.12.2005, 15:30 +0200 schrieb Simo Kauppi:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is it possible to use DRM in a thinclient configuration? If so, what am
> > I missing?
> > 
> > In the server I have "terminal" in the Xaccess-file and I start Xorg in
> > the terminal with X -query server.
> > 
> > X in the terminal seems to be working fine, except e.g. glxinfo tells
> > me that direct rendering is not working. According to the Xorg.0.log in
> > the terminal, DRM is working.
> > 
> > $ glxinfo
> 
> Am I correct in assuming that glxinfo is running on the server? In that
> case direct rendering can't work. Direct rendering means that the OpenGL
> application has direct access to the graphics hardware. If the OpenGL
> application is running on a remote server that is impossible. What you
> really want for your thin-client configuration is accelerated indirect
> rendering. People are working on making this possible, but they are not
> there yet. So you're stuck with software indirect rendering for now.
> 
> Regards,
>   Felix
> 
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Yes, glxinfo and all the other clients are running in the server (the
host which doesn't have Xserver running). Your explanation makes it very
clear :) thanks for the clarification!

Simo
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