Compositing, OpenGL programs and Intel graphics drivers

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Tue Jan 13 00:15:03 PST 2009


On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 17:34 -0800, Bipin George Mathew wrote:
> 
> (1) What if I do not use DRI and explicitly use indirect rendering on
> Intel. I tried exporting the LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1, but the initial
> issue persisted. 

That's AIGLX, which also uses the DRI, so this is expected.

> (2) When you say "Nvidia does not use the same infrastructure" - are
> you referring to AIGLX?

TTBOMK the nvidia driver doesn't use any of xserver's GLX/DRI/...
infrastructure.


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